Now that he eats hamburgers in public and visits workers in a high-vis jacket,has everyone forgotten the expenses scandal, budget shambles and other reasons not to trust him?It has been a scary weekend. Ghouls and witches all over the region, and a live coffin walking along the pavement at night,a spooky fog in the morning. But none of that was much of a worry. What’s really giving me a fright is the emergence of the pale chancellor.
In the old days of the coalition he used to veil in the shadows, but now hes out in the daytime, or bold as brass,same old smirking and taunting Commons style, but slimline, or more loveable hairstyle,and with the bit between his teeth, doing whatever he fancies. And he’s hot favourite to be the next Tory prime minister. Has everyone forgotten what he did in the shady old days? That rather worrying holiday in Corfu, and partying with Nathaniel Rothschild,Peter Mandelson and Oleg Deripaska? The Omnishambles 2012 budget and pasty tax, the booing at the Paralympics, or the Bullingdon Club? Flipping his homes in the expenses scandal? And now reports that his family furnishing firm,Osborne and exiguous, has paid no UK corporation tax for seven years.
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Source: theguardian.com