They say you do not really get to know a government until they deliver their first budget. In the last three weeks, boy, have we learned a lot about this government! It is one that has pensioners, young people and working families right in the gun, but wealthy women, big polluters and ballet schools will always be the winners with these guys. Nowhere are there more half-truths, more out and out lies, more perversities and more contradictions than in the proposed changes to higher education.