Just a hard working chap. You leftie oiks are the limit, really.
Good grief. Are you serious? Osborne has hammered local government and forced redundancy on many public servants, destroying their careers. Services reduce, taxes go up. Pay more, for less. Osborne might be hard-working, but his wealth is obscene, especially so when set in the context of what he has done to lots of people.
From Wikipedia:
In September 2007, ahead of the publication of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, Osborne pledged that the Conservative Party would match Labour's public spending plans for the next three years. He promised increases in public spending of 2% a year, calling Labour charges that the Conservatives would cut public spending "a pack of lies".
On 24 May 2010, [a fortnight after having been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer] Osborne outlined £6.2bn cuts: "We simply cannot afford to increase public debt at the rate of £3bn each week." Leaked Treasury documents the next month revealed that Osborne anticipated his tighter spending would lead to 1.3 million jobs lost over the course of the parliament. Osborne has termed those who object to his policy "deficit-deniers".
In July 2010, Osborne, seeking cuts of up to 25 per cent in government spending to tackle the deficit, insisted the £20 billion cost of building four new Vanguard-class submarine to bear Trident had to be considered as part of the MoD's core funding even if that implied a severe reduction in the rest of the Ministry of Defence budget.
Before and after becoming chancellor, Osborne had alleged that the UK was on "the verge of bankruptcy", though this assertion was criticised by the Treasury Select Committee and others as an effort to try and justify his programme of spending cuts.
Reviewing his performance in July 2016, The Guardian said that the UK still had a budget deficit of 4%, a balance of payments (trade) deficit of 7% of GDP, and apart from Italy the worst productivity in the G7. An Office for National Statistics graph including the period 2010–2016 shows a worsening balance of trade deficit.
Osborne is heir to his family's Irish baronetcy, of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon in County Waterford. He has an estimated personal fortune of around £4 million, as the beneficiary of a trust fund that owns a 15% stake in Osborne & Little, the wallpaper-and-fabrics company co-founded by his father, Sir Peter Osborne.
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Osborne might be hard-working, but his wealth is obscene, especially so when set in the context of what he has done to lots of people.
From Wikipedia:
In September 2007, ahead of the publication of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, Osborne pledged that the Conservative Party would match Labour's public spending plans for the next three years. He promised increases in public spending of 2% a year, calling Labour charges that the Conservatives would cut public spending "a pack of lies".
On 24 May 2010, [a fortnight after having been appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer] Osborne outlined £6.2bn cuts: "We simply cannot afford to increase public debt at the rate of £3bn each week." Leaked Treasury documents the next month revealed that Osborne anticipated his tighter spending would lead to 1.3 million jobs lost over the course of the parliament. Osborne has termed those who object to his policy "deficit-deniers".
In July 2010, Osborne, seeking cuts of up to 25 per cent in government spending to tackle the deficit, insisted the £20 billion cost of building four new Vanguard-class submarine to bear Trident had to be considered as part of the MoD's core funding even if that implied a severe reduction in the rest of the Ministry of Defence budget.
Before and after becoming chancellor, Osborne had alleged that the UK was on "the verge of bankruptcy", though this assertion was criticised by the Treasury Select Committee and others as an effort to try and justify his programme of spending cuts.
Reviewing his performance in July 2016, The Guardian said that the UK still had a budget deficit of 4%, a balance of payments (trade) deficit of 7% of GDP, and apart from Italy the worst productivity in the G7. An Office for National Statistics graph including the period 2010–2016 shows a worsening balance of trade deficit.
Osborne is heir to his family's Irish baronetcy, of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon in County Waterford. He has an estimated personal fortune of around £4 million, as the beneficiary of a trust fund that owns a 15% stake in Osborne & Little, the wallpaper-and-fabrics company co-founded by his father, Sir Peter Osborne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Osborne
Shame he's getting only £650k for one of his 4 other part-time jobs.
Luckily he's got a full time job as an MP + expenses.
I don't know how this poor Tory boy manages to make ends meet.
He is the heir apparent to his family's Irish baronetcy of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon in County Waterford, he's not as posh as Nick Clegg.
He is married to The Hon. Frances Victoria Howell, author and elder daughter of Lord Howell, the Conservative politician.
His high vis vest stunts were highly amusing. I was surprised he had it on the right way round.