On April 22, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced The Budget. For those of you not living in the UK or who prefer (wisely) not to know about these things, the role of the Budget is to provide an update on the state of the economy (in a word, dire) and the public finances (worse) and to present new forecasts for each, to set out the government's economic and fiscal objectives (as far as I can see, to stifle investment by small and medium-size companies), to report on the progress it has made toward achieving its objectives (like what?), and to explain the further steps it is taking to meet them (soak the rich). The record for the longest Budget speech is thought to be held by William Gladstone on April 18 1853, lasting four hours 45 minutes. Fortunately, this year's took slightly less long.
4月22日，英国财政大臣公布了财政预算案。对那些不住在英国、或者（明智地）选择不去了解这些事情的人，有必要介绍一下财政预算案的作用：它提供关于manbetx20客户端下载 状况（两个字，糟糕）及公共财政状况（更糟糕）的最新信息，提出对两者的最新预测，设定政府的manbetx20客户端下载 与财政目标（在我看来，就是抑制中小企业的投资），通报在实现目标方面取得的进展（比如？），并阐明为实现目标正在采取的进一步举措（对富人课以重税）。最长的一次财政预算案演讲据说是由威廉•格拉德斯通(William Gladstone)在1853年4月18日完成的，那次演讲花了4小时45分钟。令人庆幸的是，本年度的演讲稍短一些。