September 8th, 2011

The Many Faces of George Osborne



Given his “crash and burn” joke at the GQ Man of the Year Awards the other day,  it’s unfortunate timing that a certain website has been spreading like wildfire around Treasury civil-servants today. Enjoy…

UPDATE: And it’s not getting any better for Boy George today:


105 Comments

  1. 1
    Is Will Hutton a knob? says:

    Not in the Nokia chucking league.

    • 7
      Will the real George Osborne step forward? says:

      Is that the same George Osborne who said that he would match Labour public spending plans?

      Or is it the other George Osborne who is spending even more than Labour planned?

      • 11
        Fiscal Gerrymandering says:

        It does look like a Tom Baldwin retaliation for http://awkwardedmilibandmoments.tumblr.com/

        neither site is any good and the Osbourne GQ performance was ill considered and raises concerns about his judgement – but more than anything, it shows the level of childishness among the SpAds

      • 35
        Anonymous says:

        Its the Osborne who will out spend Labour by forcing people to lose jobs and then pay them dole.

        • 73
          misterned says:

          Are you suggesting that the Government should actually default on its debt repayments? Because the reason that this government are spending more than labour did, whilst cutting spending on services is directly because the last labour government created the biggest government deficit EVER and that has directly created a massive, inflating cost called debt interest.

          IF we had been unfortunate enough to have had the labour government after May last year, then with their much smaller cuts, the debt would be increasing far faster and the debt interest rate would have gone up, so that the amount that the government would be spending solely on debt would be far higher. Chances are, the overall deficit would be going UP again by now, thus increasing debt much faster than is currently the case.

          Or would you prefer our economy to go the way of Greece?

        • 78
          Nemo says:

          He will do a Liebore and reduce the the time people can unemployment benefit, just like liebore, it may be reduced to 3 months then on to SS, if they qualify that is.

        • 83
          Fiscal Gerrymandering says:

          This government that is borrowing £400 million EVERY DAY and has debts of £3.589 TRILLION.

          what do you suggest?

      • 102
        Anon. says:

        Just a minute. Who’s that? It’s that lefty BBC a***licker, David Mitchell. Impossible to lower the tone any further, then.

    • 25
      F. Nicks says:

      Crash for cash: Gang ‘faked more than 120 car accidents in £1m insurance scam’

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034993/Crash-cash-Gang-staged-120-fake-accidents-1m-insurance-scam.html

      • 33
        Up sh1t creek says:

        The bankers and politicians crashed the UK economy for cash, that is, cash to the bankers and the politicians, and taxpayers to pay for the biggest fraud and deception in the history of planet Earth.

    • 28
      Up sh1t creek says:

      I thought Ed Balls is a bigger wanker. It’s okay to steal peoples savings and pensions to fund the lavish lifestyle on cheap credit for feckless borrowers.

      Savers ARE NOT SPENDING like they would in a normal downturn / recession, because their money is being stolen and spent by the feckless (including government). Are you economists thick or something, interest rates so low your economy is f*cked! Truly f*cked.

      Still going on about a VAT cut. People have not stopped spending because a £100 (ex VAT) item is £2.50 more expensive. And either this economy is all George Osborne’s fault, or it’s “a global problem”, make up your mind which it is. You moron Balls.

      If your business needs credit, you should not be in business. Stop expecting others to subsidise your lack of money control.

      • 32
        Anonymous says:

        Agree with your views on Balls but not so sure credit is inherently bad. How would most companies expand without it?

        • 43
          Anonymous says:

          Even countries, Singapore debt is 132% of GDP it is growing by 15%. Debt is not the problem, the problem is what it is funding. In UK debt is used to pay people to sit at home in Singapore debt is used to build the country.

      • 36
        Anonymous says:

        £100 (ex VAT) item is £20 more expensive. Even companies that manufacturer of sell the products make 20% profit. It will be better to abolish VAT.

        • 42
          Carol Voderman says:

          ??

        • 60
          Four-eyed English Genius says:

          Only because of the beloved EU’s VAT imposition. 17.5 % to 20% means an extra £2.50 per £100. You obviously went to the same economics teacher as Gormless Gordon and Edwina Balls!

        • 62
          Titford Hat says:

          £100 + 15% VAT = £115
          £100 + 20% VAT = £120

          Difference £5.

          NB Food is zero-rated so it hasn’t gone up.
          I spent £10.40 in the supermarket this morning. £0.61 of this was VAT, on bogroll and toothbrushes (net £3.06). £6.73 was zero-rated. If VAT had been 15% the VAT amount would have been £0.45 or £0.46, depending if rounding was in place. I suggest this £0.15 or £0.16 isn’t going to make any difference to me.

          NB 2: There is VAT on beer. Boo!

        • 103
          1569 Rising says:

          Anonymous would like all to know that his A* Mathematics certificate has just arrived. He is about to join the Balls Shadow Treasury Team.

          Why need England tremble? The future of the country is in his hands

      • 37
        Alyingstare Darling says:

        Have you read my book yet, Bollokov ??

      • 40
        The BBC are cunts says:

        How was that for you, Mr. Balls ?

      • 105
        Aunt Mat says:

        Reduction in Capital Gains Tax.

        Was 18% – people paid it grudgingly.

        Now 28% – people go non dom and the revenue never see a penny.

  2. 2
    MrAngry61 says:

    Just the left’s alternative to the awkward faces of Ed Milliband.

  3. 3
    Disgusted, of Tunbridge Wells says:

    Look at him. I can just see him paying some hooker to whip him round the face, all based on some upper-class childhood disconnect from his mother.

    • 8
      MrJusticeEasy says:

      That is not “some hooker”.

      That is Geraldine. She is buxom, fearsome, and she DEMANDS respect.

      Especially from her Children. So Apologise.

  4. 4
    PK says:

    pretty ordinary if you ask me.. (and I’m no fan of his..)

    • 34
      Backwoodsman says:

      Couldn’t agree more – all of the Tories seem reasuringly normal compared to the massed ranks of weirdos , sad bastards and freaks , that make up the labour and limp dim support.

      • 55
        upyours says:

        Are you taking the effing piss? over privileged bunch of tory twats. Which Conservative club are you paying subs to again?

        • 71
          smoggie says:

          Of course, most Labour Party MPs went to comprehensive schools and that’s where they send their children to as well. No privileges there eh?

  5. 5
    Grumpy Old Man says:

    Goes with yachtgate as proof -positive that George lacks maturity -even taking his extreme youth into account.

  6. 6
    Idiot Quote of the Decade says:

    “It is a pleasure to win this award. I’ve just come from addressing about 300 bankers in the City of London and it says something about my profession that I was still the most unpopular person in the room. It is a fine recognition.

    “I’m not sure who actually reads the politics pages of GQ magazine though – I suspect they are the only pages of the magazine that a teenage boy hasn’t stuck together while reading the magazine. Some might say that’s because the w*****s are on the page rather than reading them.”

  7. 9
    I don't need no doctor says:

    To all those that criticise Osbourne please tell us what you would do to get the economy going.

    • 12
      ed milliband says:

      takth and thpend, takth and thpend

      more thothial juthtith, more thtanding on the thoulderth of thwagetteth

      • 69
        Thamuel Peepth says:

        I’m thurprithed that no-one hath mocked Ed Miliband’th thententh full of ethh wordth during yetherdayth PMQth.

        It detherveth a blog of itth own.

    • 13
      Mad, Bad & Dangerous Gordon McRuin ( member in absentia ) says:

      Take half of Tony B£iar’s and Peter Mandelson’s wealth and distribute it to the poor.

    • 14
      Anonymous says:

      Collect taxes from Vodafone?

      • 17
        Is Will Hutton a knob? says:

        They pay the amount required by law.

        • 24
          Tax Payer says:

          As I understand it, they could have been pursued for more but were allowed to settle for much less.

          This isn’t small amounts we’re talking about.

      • 19
        Sir William Waad says:

        Yes. What is Dave Hartnett (Gordon’s political appointee) playing at?

    • 18
      EdBalls says:

      As we have said quite extensively we would cut the deficit in half in four years without making any cuts or having any policies.

      I think that makes it plain

    • 21
      Steve Miliband says:

      Plan A++

      Cut taxes.
      Cut more spending.

    • 26
      Off the tip of the tongue says:

      Stop wasting money on windmills and solar panels and increase clean coal powered capacity.

      Build the Severn barrage

      Build Boris Island airport and scrap the new train line to Brum.

      Turn the A1 into a motorway.

      Withdraw from political Union with Europe.

      Benefits last for 6 months after that unless you have very very good reasons they stop.

      Bring back Polytechnics.

      Only immigrants who create wealth or serve are allowed into the country and never on a permanent basis until they have proven their worth and loyalty to the country.

      For a start.

      • 49
        nadine suckmeoff says:

        good ideas – now all we need is a conservative government to implement them

        • 59
          fake faux poster says:

          Boris island (and severn barage for that matter), sound a lot like a bottomless pit for taxpayers money.

          • Daff says:

            Quite the opposite. As anyone who has flown to Hong kong will tell you. Built in record time and British architects. A project like that would not only give the economy an immediate boost it would also sustain the economy. Would also remove pollution from London. As the Island is also a sort of barrage it will also be used for tidal generation.

            The severn barrage is very do-able and unlike windpower it will always be generating so no need to build conventional stations to back it up. I suppose they could also stick a motorway, train line and cycle track on top and a few hundred windmills painted yellow to look like daffodils

          • fake faux poster says:

            “the opposite”, so it would be so lucrative that the government would make masses of tax revenue from letting someone build it? If that were the case big building companies with plans, lobbying the government to be allowed to do it.
            London isn’t hong kong.

            Barages don’t always generate electricity by the way.

      • 87
        Nemo says:

        clean coal powered capacity

        That was sold to the Germans over 20 years ago

  8. 15
    Confucius says:

    Man who go to bed with problem on mind, wake up with solution in hand.

  9. 16
    I don't need no doctor says:

    If Blair had not lied over Iraq then Baha Mousa, along with thousands of others, would still be alive. How many families has Blair ruined for ever.

  10. 23
    Anonymous says:

    Laurel to Cameron’s Hardy?

  11. 30
    Sophie says:

    Osbourne- a mere footnote in history as a weak Chancellor with no actual policies or beliefs other than being in power.

    One term Tories – then into the wilderness for another 13 years at least – richly deserved.

    * Cut taxes

    * Cut spending

    * 50% reduction in the size of the state

    * Leave the EU

    ….just some proper Conservative values & solutions to our fiscal woes that this cabal of EUSSR neo liberals will never even consider..

    • 81
      misterned says:

      Do you think that absent some catalysing event, a new pearl harbour, that UKIP could ever get more than even 15% in the polls? Baring in mind that they would need over 45% to form a government. Even if they got enough MPs to be able to prop up a coalition, they would never ever be invited to do so by either labour or the tories.

      In fact I think that some tories, (Cameron, Osborne, Louise Mench) would prefer a labour government to a tory government propped up by UKIP.

      So either way you slice it, we are stuck with left of centre, third way, delusional climate changey EU loving Britain betraying politically correct immigration loving bastards in Government.

      I shall still be voting UKIP as this is the only way now to get a real change away from labour or their imposters in the liberal/tory coalition.

      Cameron’s blatant Pro-EU ‘outing’ in the Commons’s yesterday was the very very last straw for me, and even my rabid hatred of labour will not convince me to vote tory now.

      Cameron’s conservative party are NOT a Eurosceptic party at all. They are equally as Pro EU as labour and the liberals, but less honest about it.

    • 90
      Nemo says:

      Do you mean, he who is the heir to the Osborne baronetcy (of Ballentaylor, in County Tipperary, and Ballylemon, in County Waterford), surely not, he is a sunbeam, a shining light to all and sundry.

  12. 31
    Sophie says:

    Modded again? Welcome to BBC HYS.

    • 50
      Backwoodsman says:

      Probably posting your usual u kipper sh1t then Suzy ? FFS, read Cammila Longs interview with Farage and then explain how you’re going to sell him to a sceptical public !

      • 77
        not a friend of Dorothy says:

        Fuck off!

      • 84
        misterned says:

        You refer to an old article from before the last election? When UKIP are rising quickly in the polls and are very close to the Lib Dems now and on course to become the third force in British politics.

        They have more support than the greens and the B&P combined and are headed for being the third party.

  13. 38
    I Hate Blue Labour says:

    So the choice of who to run the economy is Osborne or Balls?

    God help us.

  14. 39
    Farmer Giles says:

    Would he become the godfather for my children

  15. 45
    Edward Milihands says:

    Stop the cuts!

  16. 53

    Sir Stuart bell on Jeremy Vine.

    “Hello Sir Stu. We have had some reports about you…”
    “They’re all untrue. baseless allegations from political opponents.”
    “Well thanks for clearing that up. Would you like to say hi to anyone? Any records you want playing..?”

    “No…I must be off..important work opposing evil Tory-led cuts to be done.”
    “Thanks for coming in, Sir Stuart Bell..”

    That really was about it.
    On I-player soon -
    13.57 – 13.59.

  17. 56
    anonymous says:

    picture of George behind bars reminds me -

    http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/1049114

    35000 people arrested as terorists since 9/11

    and we still only get the american widows view of her loss that day not that of afghanis or iraqis – apparently they like the british population are expendable

  18. 58
    Cynical-old-bag says:

    What head has Wurzel got on today, then?

  19. 61
    Stinkfinger says:

    I wish the GQ magazine had been around when I was a teenager.
    Having to balance my mums Littlewoods catalogue on my chest while have a five knuckle shuffle was a nightmare.

  20. 64
    Loungelizard says:

    Having seen George in action confirms that it’s the Labour Politicians who are the comedians.

  21. 75
    screw them all says:

    Lib/Lab/Con = all the fucking same. I want my country back you thieving criminal fucktards.

  22. 76
    ffs says:

    GQ was a fucking embarrassment. The guy is an utter c’unt.

  23. 95
    Popeye says:

    Very droll to have an alleged comedian saying an elected MP is lowering the tone!

  24. 96
    Tachybaptus says:

    Never trust the Sun on foreign languages. Wang Qishan is pronounced ‘wung chishun’. You will hear this if you copy his name, 王岐山, into Google Translate and listen to it.

  25. 97
    Anonymous says:

    Fair play to George for making the effort. Nice one!

  26. 98
    Do not want to share the same air as the meddling Edinburgh dogshit says:

    Appalling

  27. 99
    gildedtumbril says:

    George oddballs impresses no one. He is a fiscal illiterate, whatever that is.

  28. 100
    Highland Tiger says:

    Meow!

  29. 101
    Displaced Brummie says:

    OK, is their someone who longs for George’s job?

    Who is nasty and vile enough to keep launching such horrible attacks?

    Who has form for such activities in the past?

    Oh, but that’s just Balls, isn’t it?


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is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?


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