I haven't looked at the benefit changes, although Child Benefit is going up by a couple of pounds a week by 2010.

I still think Brown is a good thing, though. But he could usefully do something about the marginal effective tax rate of working tax credit withdrawal, which is a much bigger zog than a pound here or there. Not that I'd be remotely afloat at all without tax credits; abolishing them would be precisely the wrong thing to do.