If travel didn't broaden George Osborne's mind, his budget will again mirror the collective psychosis that has seized Europe. Impossible orders to squeeze the lifeblood out of country after country is fantasy economics no one believes: Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy can never cut what they pretend to promise. Socially, economically and politically it's impossible – and dangerous to democracy to try. Even the Dutch, chief austerity police of the feckless south, are missing their own cuts target by miles. Germany has failed to make half the cuts it pledged. This is EBOLA economics, Europe feeding on its own flesh.