Your Verdict On Osborne As Chancellor.

[Gromit]

His lease on No.11 is up. How did he do?

[vulcan42]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-36570120

[fiction-factory]

Yes, he's resigned. I wasn't a great fan- too much tinkering- although his work on increasing personal allowances and pension freedoms were significant.

[jno]

yep, Hammond, as exclusively predicted earlier on this thread.

[mikey4444]

Osborne going is the best news I have heard today...lets hope he was pushed before he jumped !

[Gromit]

Mushroom, just for you.

If, in the unlikely eventhe is not replaced by Phillip Hammond, and Osborne remains Chancellor, how has he done so far.
(Sorry for your wasted Googling for something that everyone else takes for granted).
And your answer....

[mikey4444]

I am just glad he is gone....sacked according to the BBC News, not "resigned". The fact that isn't being shuffled somewhere else speaks volumes. Nothing for IDS either I see !

I am beginning to enjoy this. If I thought that both Osborne and IDS were going to be thrown out, I might have voted for BREXIT after all.

Any news of that other twit Jeremy Hunt ?

[mikey4444]

Thanks Ed !

[Peter Pedant]

eek what has happened
Gromit thread is headlines as Mikey's


anyway - those who leave under a cloud, tend to be treated lightly by history and those who leave in a hail of plaudits - think Bliar.... Wilson


Perhaps those in a positiion to control their image ( Broon and Osborne clearly didnt ) go for the Big One whilst they can ....

[mikey4444]

PP...that nice Ed removed my earlier thread....I had forgotten there was this one already !

[-Talbot-]

eek what has happened
Gromit thread is headlines as Mikey's



Calm down PP
mikey posted a thread asking the same Q as Gromit. He asked for it to be removed ... and it has been removed.

[Peter Pedant]

// Calm down PP// Talbo
thank you talbo- I will have a calming cup of fresh Morning Chunder
it was threatening to wreck my whole day and it is only 8 o'clock !

[Hopkirk]

What was he doing announcing a cut in corporation tax last week?

I bet May and Hammond aren't best pleased with him making policy for them.

[ChillDoubt]

Poncey, pontificating, pasty-tax p rick

[Gromit]

It is the Guardian, but this is a savage critique of Osborne.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/15/george-osborne-austerity-choked-recovery-brexit-legacy-referendum-revolt

[Hypognosis]

@gromit

I have already joined some dots thus:-

- Political parties "buying votes", via election promises
- Repeated gubmint borrowing, to follow through on said promises
- More borrowing to pay for the (unforseen?) consequences of policy dogma (eg harm to health, from poverty and swelling welfare bills, consequent to industry closures)
- Housing ponzi runs out of new entrants, causing banking crash
- Yet more borrowing, to bail out the failed banks
- Austerity measures, to make good the loan repayments
- Public becomes increasingly conscious of where their tax money actually goes
- Brexit, in effort to "stem the haemorrhage* of funds to the EU"

So, do I still need to read this Guardian article?



* Of barely 1% of national spend.