Osborne’s performance today in the mis-named Autumn Statement (which might be better titled Pummelling the Opposition, with occasional fleeting references to the economy) was a mix between a fragging operation beloved of the Bullingdon Club and a fantasy presentation of how he was going to produce a budget surplus by 2018 (or was that 2030, […]
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Stop the growing divide in Britain
Dec 5th, 2013 by Grahame Morris.In 2010, the new Chancellor George Osborne promised “We were all in it together”, however, in the last three years we have seen the largest cuts targeted towards the North East. It is a line he was unlikely to repeat during today’s Autumn statement. Three years in and he has missed every economic target he […]
