Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label CBI Annual dinner

Osborne says the plan is working.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/15/george-osborne-insists-economic-plan_n_3281312.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Osborne has asked business leaders to hold their nerve and continue backing the government's austerity measures.   George Osborne urges business leaders to hold their nerve over austerity George Osborne said at the CBI Dinner last night (15th May 2013), that  "Our (economic) plan  is working. Now is not the time to lose our nerve. Let's not listen to those who would take us back to square one.Let's carry on doing what is right for Britain, let's see this through."    May we assume that this piece of baloney was spouted after dinner was finished, (and which, per head, probably cost more than many families have to spend on their food bills every week) and after the usual round of 40 year old cognacs and 50 year old Port had been quaffed. A hall full of rich business people, some of whom were undoubtedly millionaires, listeni...