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Why is everybody rounding on George Osborne?

26th Jul 2012
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I am neither for or against our chancellor as a person or in a political sense. It seems like people are jumping on the bandwagon to criticise him because he hasn't ended the Eurocrisis or got rid of all the private and public debt that is gunging up our financial system. We know that Gordon Brown reckoned he could save the world but our Mr Osborne is somewhat more sanguine. The markets are backing his decisions and the European problems are not his to fix.

There was a minister on the radio today who said that the chancellor works basically all day at the Treasury . I work all day in my business but it doesn't prevent me from undertaking voluntary work, so why should he not be busy with his party?  He is a policitian after all. Surely every MP spends time on party matters.

Just realised - it's the silly season , so the hacks have to fabricate some rubbish to publish.

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By User deleted
26th Jul 2012 23:32

He has to stay ...

... any thing is better than Cable, the only thing cables do is tie things down.

If DC called a referendum on Europe, called a General Election for the same day (to save costs!) we might get a one party government and then things could get done - and if we get a good haul in the Olympics so much the better the chances!

 

 

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Norman Younger
By Norman Younger
27th Jul 2012 09:34

Politics

An EC referendum is a no brainer way to gain a clean sweep victory.

All this howling is like a kid being given medicine and stomping his feet as a matter of principle

It isn't pleasant but the alternative is much worse. What the hacks need to do is explain to people what real financial pain would be like and how we are steering clear of it

And another thing, as along as we do it right and interest rates remain low all those grumblers out there can still afford their masssive mortgages. If Osborne changes course it's curtains for the housing market

 

 

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By paulgrca.net
27th Jul 2012 12:54

Short term memory loss

You seem to have forgotten all the duff stuff in the last budget!

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Norman Younger
By Norman Younger
27th Jul 2012 13:19

Dull stuff in budget

Impossible ! One cannot forget what one has never seen  :-)

Anyway , isn't dull stuff the sign of a good chancellor ?

I do however recall something about U - turns in recent months , and I am not referring to a motoring manouvre

Such behaviour is aa sign of ill thought through announcements coupled with weakness , but I think on the fundamentals he is sticking to his guns.  With the excpetion of Devon and Cornwall , sales of pasties are unlikely to drag us out of the fiscal morass

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By User deleted
27th Jul 2012 13:29

Ah, but ...

... unlike GB he was not too pig-headed to admit he got it wrong!

Also, if you read the small print, a lot of the "reversals" are only tinkered with to make them more palatable, a lot of the "duff" is still in there.

That aside, do you really think a different chancellor would have had a different budget? He is only the mouth piece for the treasury!

 

 

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By justsotax
27th Jul 2012 13:30

I agree..

hmmm no i don't i have changed my mind....hmmm well ok then i agree with some points....or maybe not......I thought i was indecisive but then i changed my mind........

 

Unfortunately he has been his own worst enemy in the last few months.....

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By paulgrca.net
27th Jul 2012 13:38

Why is everybody rounding on George Osborne ?

You seem to have answered your own question!

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''Such behaviour is a sign of ill thought through announcements coupled with weakness , but I think on the fundamentals he is sticking to his guns.''

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Norman Younger
By Norman Younger
27th Jul 2012 13:49

Osborne v Brown

Indeed GO is better than GB . The latter was a professional economist and was responsible for the mess we are in . He sold his socialist soul to cosy up to the City and made out he was Mr Prosperity.  I do feel sorry for him as a person , having gone down in flames instead of leaving in glory like his boss. Timing is everything

Indeed the chancellor is a Treasury mouthpiece more many things but I would like to hope that on fundamental decisions of direction the initiative comes from him

Perhaps the newspapers ought to publisha comparison table of "hurt" in repsective Euro economies to put our situation into perspective

 

 

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By justsotax
30th Jul 2012 10:30

@flying....

a comparison is worthwhile...however i fear that it is like the choice between  ....dumb or dumber.....  

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Norman Younger
By Norman Younger
30th Jul 2012 11:06

Chancellors

If we get a Liberal in the Treasury it will become "dumbest" !

 

Bottom line has to be that Moody's gave UK the thumbs-up on Friday .

 

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By justsotax
30th Jul 2012 11:17

would that be one of these

agency's that AAA rated companies and countries, until things crashed and then re-rated them......ah my confidence completely restored then.....

 

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Norman Younger
By Norman Younger
30th Jul 2012 16:30

Moodys

I agree that the whole credit rating kaboodle is a totla and utter con but it's the yardstick that

markets use, so as the say let us run with the herd

 

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By justsotax
31st Jul 2012 10:02

hmmmm, a total economic cockup

caused by corrupt bankers, negligent lenders and overseen by rating agencies that can't tell the difference between a cat and a dog....

 

people squandering others peoples money and then needing to be bailed out.....feckless...?

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Norman Younger
By Norman Younger
31st Jul 2012 11:07

Bankers

I am reading a great book  by the BBC's Rob Peston entitled "Who Runs Britain" - it doesn't teach me a lot but neverhteless entertaining and helps you explain it all to your granny. As they say , if you can't explain it to your grandmother then you don't understand it properly

 

The difference between the four legged friends is that dogs go "woof" and cats go "meow" . I think that's it but I am sure the City gents will put me right

 

 

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