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Osborne is vastly overrated.

Some key facts :-

He has signed us up to three years of massive Labour spending pledges.

There was no genius in his inheritance tax announcement. Nearly every visitor to this website had been arguing for such tax cuts for two years.

On Northern Rock he has been outplayed by Vince Cable.

He looks like a boy. If the economy goes bad many won't trust a boy with their wellbeing.

I agree, Alan. Ossie really isn't up to the job and would be as catastrophic as dear old Gordon!

Er, those tax "cuts" are to be funded by tax increases... that is the Tory policy.

I’m very reluctant to draw parallels with the Labour Party in the 1990s and the Conservative Party today. I don’t see any advantage of conforming to a New Labour model of party-leadership simply because it was the Labour Party who turned itself round (in electoral terms) in the face of a failing and weakened government.

Whilst there are similarities with the Labour Party, it is simply not the case that Cameron struck a deal with Osborne.

Yes, I’m sure they discussed leadership issues (surprise, surprise this is politics after all), but to suggest that there was a deal simply because Blair and Brown struck a deal is a redundant argument.

There are no signs to suggest an agreement between the two, and there are no signs to suggest disagreement between the two.

Therefore lets not focus on the politics of the relationship between Cameron and Osborne, but rather; how they are part of a better team who can run the country.

Yes Jeffrey, tax cuts are more use to me when I am alive. But for Gideon Osborne, who will inherit tens or hundreds of millions, IHT tax cuts are more valuable. Cuts income and capital gains taxes would benefit entrepreneurs rather than trustafarian politicos like Dave and Gideon.

The chances of other tax increases being needed elsewhere to off-set cuts elsewhere are about 1 in 2000.

I think the most important thing to be drawn from this interview assuming it's not all spin is that these two men actually seem to like each other and work well together. After all the problems with Thatcher/Lawson and Blair/Brown that's quite important I think.
It's true that Osborne had very little of value to say about Northern Rock but with the vast increases required for the prison service, border security and the armed forces it would it is probably right as well as politically sensible to commit to the current spending plans. That does not stop Osborne from demanding efficeincy savings or cutting programmes he feels are of less value.

A Granita-style deal between them wouldnt suprize me in the least. Theyve copied everything else from New Labours playbook.

Oasbornes attempt to pull himself away from the project to which he had been a key architect is sad and pathetic...

A Granita-style deal between them wouldnt suprize me in the least. Theyve copied everything else from New Labours playbook.

Oasbornes attempt to pull himself away from the project to which he had been a key architect is sad and pathetic...

Malcolm, wake up- we need to spend correctly, and be don't be bashful about it - we have wasted billions on most government departments and spend more than Germany as % of GDP now. We have become in a generation a nation of hand-out junkies, which has not been good for our society in any way, particularly our less well-off who who become entombed in the 'dependency' culture.

"We have become in a generation a nation of hand-out junkies, which has not been good for our society in any way, particularly our less well-off who who become entombed in the 'dependency' culture"

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the truly poisonous legacy of the Maggie era.

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