George Osborne: A profile of the man behind the Budget - BBC Newsnight
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- For some people George Osborne represents everything that's unhealthy about modern politics. He's rich, privileged and never had a proper job outside Westminster. He's also, say his critics, overly fond of minutely strategising the political embarrassment of his enemies. But to his fans he's responsible for many of this government's proudest achievements and masterminded the Conservatives' election winning strategy. On Wednesday 16th March he will deliver his eighth budget, which if the EU referendum goes against him could prove to be his last. So what do we know about George Osborne? David Grossman has this assessment.
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We all knew that one kid that came to school with the brief case
I have always wonder how many people this man and his Tory supporters have managed to destroy even without really trying?
Please acknowledge that the fulfilment of his own personal success comes at the expense of the standard of living for the working and lower middle classes. You must agree it is jarring to celebrate someone's private political achievements when the result of those achievements include food banks, fewer disability benefits, an obsession with economic growth that will one day extinguish our ecosystem. There is almost no indication in this video that any decision he has made has been in the interest of someone else.
''...an obsession with economic growth that will one day extinguish our ecosystem.''
This. And on and on it continues with the Tories still in power.
he likes picking on the poor and making the rich richer
elias winters You won’t make the poor richer if you make the rich poorer
@@thekid4779 you will if you tax them.
He wanted to raise the minimum wage!
Can't work out whether this is george osbourne or mark corrigan
Am I the only one who thinks George Osbourne is a very cleaver man! ? I love HS2! Keynesian Economics! Investing in the infrastructure of our nation. Most of our railways were built by the Victorians! While Japan and China have bullet trains we still have Northern Rickerty Trains! Very clever man and an admirer of Thatcher! But knew that Thatchersism and Monetarism was no over!
Gosh I love Austerity
Why on earth wouldn't you give Baron Finkelstein, (Associate Editor, The Times) his full title?
How smug he was at the 2019 election on itv
@Daniel Clark Clark I do
@Daniel Clark Clark he hated her didn't he
nasty as well at may about murder
The most disliked MP in the UK.
+awing UK ian duncan smith tho
and Hammond
@@beanbake99 He redeemed himself
Wonder what George Osborne would’ve done with the covid 19 situation
He would probably be worse than Sunak
Scary. He was the one funding PHE...
At the time in 2014, PHE was created from parts of the closed down Health Protection Agency and the service was confused. Warning about health was before a virus
Run to
Mammy
It would be a case of Good luck getting any payments. And for Cameron can't imagine him having let us work from home. Right wing government from 2010-2016
No pepsi addiction? We're borrowing 5k every second under austerity. Nice to see our BBC ignoring important details.
Haha... Not a proper Tory... Hes a typcal tory.
What about George Osborne once again?
Yes....too many libraries caused the banks to crash. No pay freeze for natwest bankers despite being government majority owned as of 2018. That's fair......
Who else is here because of the Chelsea news?
economics was never your forte was it Osborne???
We pay TV licensing for this? Are you having a laugh??
Yes, you nailed it. Every penny of your TV license went into making this 7 minute background of arguably the second most important in the UK at the time.
He looks very uncomfortable with the public....
Rich get richer SMH.
that's really funny!!
Hi Nadine. Who killed JFK?
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Judd moved to tears at Maggies funeral Don’t worry judd she made plenty of people cry in Yorkshire whilst PM, an you lot down South couldn’t get you brain in gear when we celebrated her death, an what’s more we are still suffering at this management government hands about time you woke up corruption infested House of corruption.
Penny for Pm 🇬🇧
well, that was a waste of my time
A true hero
John 3.16-21
Shelf stacker , nd
George Osborne is a handsome man.
Evening Standard should be renamed Osborne Standard, as its its either right or left wing, or has no point of view.
This guy is a disgrace.