Did anyone get anything positive from the budget

I like the idea of them going after the thieves that ripped off the country during Covid. There are £bs of pounds that could be clawed back and put towards 'rescuing' the NHS and social care.

Not enough mention of this though.

With respect I’m not sure you have grasped quite what a mess the country was and still is in. Public services were in a mess, we couldn’t afford even the spending we had committed to. The country has awesome challenges with a bulge of people heading to retirement and very low new birth rates. We want to live longer at vast expense at vast expense. An excess of older people means very inefficient use of the housing stock we have and however much some would like to deny it we now recognise that we don’t get a free pass from an environmental perspective and that our current way of doing things is not sustainable.

Faced with that tsunami, government of any colour has limited levers to pull. I do think the reality is that our standard of living will fall to some extent.

But what levers they have they have pulled reasonably well in my view. They have protected the worse off to some extent and sought to stabilize public services and the economy and found a reasonable balance between raising funds and preserving incentives to invest by for example keeping CGT rates below expectations.

I don’t inevitably agree with every measure and this is just the first step on a very long and very difficult road in what might well be at best managed decline, but I was reasonably encouraged by a return to serious government rather than government by tabloid headline.

With respect. The tax is to cover the mess the country is in. The borrowing is supposed to fix the economy, that's what we were told. 

As for not having grasped how bad the economy is, before Covid my company had a two million pound expansion and contingency fund) that's all gone, we are now spending money we don't really have trying to diversify and appeal to a bigger market just to survive. And I say survive advisedly, its that bad. 

So I watch the economy on a scale you can't begin to imagine in your cocoon. 

IMO, they cannot protect the worst off simply by saying businesses have to find more money. For every business that can find the money another will fail, putting evermore people into poverty.
I assume you are aware that 800 pubs became insolvent and 500 closed last year and nearly 2,000 restaurants went bankrupt. Yet still you hold to your mantra that businesses are not  'The poor' and can just find the money and pass the costs on. 
You need growth, or at the very least recovery and confidence, or everything else is just sticking plasters. 

I am aware leisure is a very tough sector of the economy to be in at the moment Zany. It must be hard for you to see what you have worked hard for struggle to survive through no fault of your own.

You are getting aggressive and personal again. I have learnt , perhaps too slowly, to disengage when that happens. I will leave you with the thought that no government of whatever colour has the levers to fix the economy given all the headwinds I outlined earlier (I didn’t even mention the massive harm we did to our living standards through Brexit, it is far from impossible that Trump may cause the world a further hit starting next week.) All any government of any colour can do is pull what levers it has to nudge the economy in the right direction. It feels to me that they have come up with a reasonable package within the financial, societal and political constraints they face.

You might consider why that only appears to be the case with yourself.
Maybe opening your post with the idea that I am unaware of the state of the country was not a good starting point. 

On the rest of your post above. Yes I recognise that Brexit, Covid, Ukraine are strong headwinds, but I'm sure you are very aware of the added mismanagement the Tories bought along (I offer you evidence item 1, Liz Truss)
However the Labour party were not elected on a manifesto of "there's nothing we can do" 
So to emphasise, I am not looking for a quick fix so much as a boost in public confidence that the future looks brighter. That confidence encourages spending which encourages investment, which causes growth, which builds confidence.
You mention the EU. Maybe Labour should have mentioned that we are looking at a better relationship there, more often. Instead of constantly telling us how bad things are followed by a budget that said we hope to balance the books and not make things any more shitty than they are. 

Finally as someone who has always stated he would happily pay more income tax, this is because income tax is based on ability to pay, so for the first 12 years of this business I would have paid a lot more, but now I am taking nothing out I would pay nothing. 
Taxing my business on a basis that is not related to ability to pay feels very OLD labour to me. 

Anyone watch Reeves on Kuensberg earlier.  Absolutely appalling.  No defence of attacking jobs, hospices and GPs other than to say over and over that she was fixing public services.

With non logic like that she could have faux justified stealing all private pension funds or indeed any stupid policy.