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Political commentator, Andrew Neil.

He is consistently the best political interviewer on television today.

Saw him on the Sunday Politics and he savaged Tory Deputy Chairman, Michael Fallon and then did his very, very best to do the same to Ed Balls.

He's as aggressive and disdainful towards politicians as Jeremy Paxman but far better informed and I suspect has a quicker mind so he can often make politicians look completely uninformed as he did in his budget reporting/interviewing last week.

He makes Andrew Marr look as if Marr is your favourite granny.

Keep at the bastards, Mr Neil!

Andrew Neil would kick Paxman's ass in a fight! He tears them apart without the Paxman pomposity.

I saw that too! Fallon looked like he had been sent for sacrifice.

I was impressed with Balzup. Which was a shock! He lost all credibility being with Gordumb Brown but I'm impressed that he always answers the questions and never ducks. Not sure he is any good though?

"Not sure he is any good though?"

Well it's all relative I guess. Yep he was part of the Labour government that presided over the banking collapse which had a bigger impact on the UK than most countries. Having said that I dont think it would have made any difference for the better whatsoever re. the impact of that collapse if the Tories had been in power instead. Would the Tories have regulated the banking industry any more? Would they have acted more swifly than Brown in trying to ensure that you could get ya money out of the cash machine the next day? I don't think so.

Ask yourself who would do a better job based on their estimates of 2 years ago.

Osborne - Cutting back on the public sector will free the private sector to grow and they will employ the job losses in the public sector. My budget is a budget for growth.

Balls - The government is cutting too far and too fast which will result in a flat economy and the risk of a double dip recession as a result of depressing consumer demand. The private sector is closely related to the public sector so that huge cuts in public sector capital projects will result in private sector losses in companies working in that area.

I don't think there is much argument about who has been proved correct. I can't remember a budget that has been so universally hammered in pretty much the entire press as this one.