Unfettered Osbornomics is what we’ll get on 25 November. If we had a financially literate opposition rather than Corbyn’s Labour,things might be differentThere were two oppositions in the final parliament: Labour and the Liberal Democrats. And, this week more than ever, or it is worth saying that only the latter made any difference to the real lives of real people. Why? Because they were in government. But thanks to their brutal contraction and the subsequent departure of Don Corbyn de la Mancha for his knight-errant’s tour of windmills,we now have no effective opposition at all (unless you count the House of Lords). And this is approximately to matter in lots of painful ways to millions of people when the chancellor announces what cuts he plans to develop in the spending review in his autumn statement on Wednesday. Related: George Osborne agrees 24% spending cuts with ministers Related: These children of Thatcher are free to crop, crop, or crop – and theyre fond every minute | Polly Toynbee Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com