Reply to: George Osborne is toying with the idea of removing a further £30bn in middle-class..

[vetran]

Actually Osbourne is quite a financial genius:

The little flipper!

[darmstadt]

Actually Osbourne is quite a financial genius:

[vetran]

Not sure the significance of spelling his name with a K?

However, luckily there are not enough foolish people who will vote for this fool. Anyone who does is deluded.

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Korban (also referred to as "Corbin" or "Corban") is the name of the religious cult formed by Micah and his wife Julia in the mid 90's (according to Julia, as of 2014 it was 20 years ago suggesting the cult was founded in 1994). Joe Carroll learns of the cult from his former second-in-command Tim Nelson and a man named Robert, choosing to seek it out as a secondary plan following his faked death and betrayal to Lily Gray. He along with his two remaining followers Emma Hill and Mandy Lang join the group, with Joe's intent to observe the hierarchy and position himself in control.

[AtW]

there's no fecking way he'll make a surplus.

It's possible that he will achieve it. The price however will be so high that core Tory vote will collapse, he won't win the election....

[fullyautomatix]

Next election I will vote for any party that will implement new policies that will enable expensive IT contractors to pay little to no tax.

[jamesbrown]

WHS.

He's seen the deficit versus a theoretical 'credit rating' and thought that the deficit should be removed to get a surplus, but with no idea what impact that has to the country but more importantly the impact to people who make up the Tory Middle class vote.

What actually comes across is, that this Chancellor is so stupid, that he can make wholesale massive changes, safe in the knowledge there is no political opposition, but with no idea of what the impact is.

It's scary tulip.

Since there's no opposition, the only risk to Gidiot is that he won't manage to secure the leadership when call-me-Dave starts at J.P. Morgan. However, this is where he's miscalculated, because there's no fecking way he'll secure the Tory leadership, surplus or otherwise. As an aside, there's no fecking way he'll make a surplus.

[MarillionFan]

He is a self serving bean counter who has never done an honest day of work in real business.

Finance ministers should never be allowed to have any leadership ambitions because they sit on the money and can bribe people, this should be written down in Magna Carta.

WHS.

He's seen the deficit versus a theoretical 'credit rating' and thought that the deficit should be removed to get a surplus, but with no idea what impact that has to the country but more importantly the impact to people who make up the Tory Middle class vote.

What actually comes across is, that this Chancellor is so stupid, that he can make wholesale massive changes, safe in the knowledge there is no political opposition, but with no idea of what the impact is.

It's scary tulip.

[AtW]

I'm beginning to think he's a goddamn communist sleeper. It's the only rational explanation.

He is a self serving bean counter who has never done an honest day of work in real business.

Finance ministers should never be allowed to have any leadership ambitions because they sit on the money and can bribe people, this should be written down in Magna Carta.

[AtW]

AtW, see you've set-up a new webshop: I Love Osborne Gifts - I Love Osborne Gift Ideas on Zazzle

[darmstadt]

Attn: AtW

AtW, see you've set-up a new webshop: I Love Osborne Gifts - I Love Osborne Gift Ideas on Zazzle

[BrilloPad]

The idea was to work out how to get a hung parliament again so we could get another referendum on the parliamentary voting system.

Last person who got close to work out how to do it was Guy Fawkes

+1. I would like to see a hung parliament.

[AtW]

The idea was to work out how to get a hung parliament again so we could get another referendum on the parliamentary voting system.

Last person who got close to work out how to do it was Guy Fawkes

[SueEllen]

I did, although I still voted for them as they were the least worst option - compared to Miliband propped up by the SNP.

None of the party's plans added up, not one of them - they were all based upon wildly optimistic assumptions, which were never going to come to pass.

Once you work out all the "protected" spending, and the "protected" tax promises (not raising basic rate of Tax/NI etc.), then it was blindingly obvious (to me anyway) that things like divs/pension contributions etc. would be in the firing line.

The idea was to work out how to get a hung parliament again so we could get another referendum on the parliamentary voting system.

[AtW]

I would love that, however not enough people vote for the cuts that would be necessary.

People voted for it!!! Cons had mandate to REDUCE GOVT SPENDING, SECOND TIME NOW! First time they could claim that LibDems don't allow them to cut spending ... but not now!

Yet, what Osborne wants instead is to increase taxes on his core voters in order to buy more traditional Labour voters and for that reason he isn't cutting the spending as fast and as much as was promised.

One can't even argue that they would lower taxes in time for next election, they might PROMISE to do so IF they get elected again, but the problem is that once Govt gets nice tax revenues it won't be going back on it - this creates problem for the future, that's why Govt spending should have been reduced - taxation is very high as it is.

[Waldorf]

The only valid ticket for Cons must be REDUCTION OF TAXATION, not "we'll tax you a lot but it might be less than the others".

I would love that, however not enough people vote for the cuts that would be necessary.