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Osborne: An incompetent coward, not fit for office

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/21/stephen-crabb-government-u-turns-disability-cuts-leaves-budget-disarray Disability benefits U-turn leaves Cameron with £4.4bn to find The new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb  The government is in a complete shambles and this budget is descending into meaningless farce. The "one nation government" argument has been exposed as a cynical lie, and Osborne has been  revealed as the incompetent charlatan that many have always considered him to be. Moreover, he has demonstrated a complete contempt for Parliament with his failure to appear in the Commons to face questioning and in sending a substitute in his place. George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer   By this act of cowardice alone, he has demonstrated that he is unfit to hold one of the three great offices of State (or any other office for that matter) and should be sacked from his post.

The hypocrisy of Iain Duncan-Smith

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/mar/18/iain-duncan-smith-resigns-from-cabinet-over-disability-cuts Iain Duncan-Smith  has resigned as work and pensions secretary over cuts Duncan-Smith resigns.  Iain Duncan Smith said that "he was stepping down because Osborne’s cuts were for self-imposed political reasons rather than in the national economic interest". He also said that “I am unable to watch passively while certain policies are enacted in order to meet the fiscal self-imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest,”. In other words, Duncan-Smith has come to the view that austerity i s not an economic necessity. Austerity is a political choice. It is strange indeed that the man who has over the past eight years, imposed cuts of over £30 billion on welfare spending, condemning thousands of people in this country to hardship and misery and even driving some to suicide. ...

A grubby but not illegal excursion into property development.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osbornes-family-struck-a-6m-property-deal-with-firm-based-in-tax-haven--reports-10373416.html   George Osborne's family 'struck a £6m property deal' with firm based in tax haven        Chancellor George Osborne     Today, (Wednesday 8th July), George Gideon Oliver Osborne, will delivery the first fully Conservative budget in almost 20 years. The already leaked details of the budget, (which until recently were the best kept secrets in the country)have already indicated cuts to child tax credits, housing benefits and tax credits on low incomes, together with £13billion cuts to welfare spending.These cuts, forming part of the governments drive for even more austerity in the United Kingdom, will effect the majority of people in the country reducing living standards even further and, it has been suggested increase child poverty, (even using the new government fiddled d...

The most inept Chancellor in 100 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/18/former-mpc-economists-ada_n_2900881.html?1363643742&utm_hp_ref=uk   Austerity Policies Attacked By Former Bank Of England Economists.  David Blanchflower: The chancellor’s austerity measures have “completely failed”, says the professor of economics at Dartmouth College in the United States. Osborne, he adds, is the “most inept chancellor in 100 years. We have the worst economic recovery since the late 19th century.” Chancellor George Osborne   ‘MOST INEPT CHANCELLOR IN 100 YEARS’. When you consider how many "inept" people have had that job since 1913, that's quite an achievement for Osborne. The worrying point is that being Chancellor of the Exchequer, is considered as a stepping stone to becoming Prime Minister ! Now there is a thought. Osborne could eventually hold both titles. Most inept Chancellor and most inept Prime Minister in 100 years.

Profiteering of Privatised energy suppliers.

  http://news.sky.com/story/965230/british-gas-posts-23-percent-rise-in-profits  British Gas Residential arm rose 23% to £345m in the six months to June 30.  The rise in profits means that British Gas Residential made some £1.9m of profit a day as consumers struggle to cope after the average dual fuel bill rose to £1,310 a year - more than £200 higher than two years ago. As predicted, this parasitic energy supplier, heralds a 5% reduction in prices to the consumer earlier this year (having raised the price by 25% over the previous year), and STILL makes £345 million pounds profit in the first 6 months of 2012. Are prices being reduced next week? I do not think so. This profiteering at the expense of the consumer is obscene.

Morally Wrong to pay cash, but only to some.

http://news.sky.com/story/964120/mp-paying-tradesmen-in-cash-is-morally-wrong  A Treasury minister has hit out at households who pay tradesmen in cash, saying it is "morally wrong" as it helps workers avoid tax. "Getting a discount with your plumber by paying cash in hand is something that is a big cost to the Revenue and means others have to pay more in tax. Exchequer Secretary David Gauke is a complete pillock. I can negotiate a discount for paying cash with all sorts of businesses. The high street shops are more than willing to reduce prices, sometime by as much as 15% in order to secure business especially in the furniture or white goods products. Car franchises usually offer cash discounts on the purchase of cars and vehicles. When Gauke and his ConDem coalition government has inflicted this pressure on the economy and consumers, there is every reason for the consumer to secure the best deal possible whenever a purchase is made. The privatised comp...

Their hidden agenda

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/  Cameron to urge debate on welfare pay-outs. THE REAL OBJECTIVE IS TO DISMANTLE THE WHOLE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE UK. Cameron, Duncan Smith,Osborne and the rest of the evil conspirators in the Tory ranks should really come clean and stop fishing for public support by popular sound bites. Their real objective in the medium to long term, is the complete scrapping and destruction of the welfare system in this country.