intelligent speeches – which Osborne’s at the Tory conference was – don’t change the fact that this move by Murdoch is a wake-up call for just approximately everyoneWell,this is awkward: not quite how the new politics was meant to pan out. Thousands of people marching superb-naturedly through Manchester protesting against austerity fill been upstaged by a handful of the usual suspects spitting on journalists and screaming “Tory scumbag” at random (and thus often not Tory) party conference-goers.
Meanwhile the new and most influential player in the battle to finish George Osborne reducing the tax credits on which low-income families rely turns out to be … the Sun. In an editorial this morning it warned that a “living wage”, which isn’t really anything of the sort, or won’t compensate for cuts in benefit paid to working people and rightly suggested this undermines Osborne’s attempt to portray himself as a blue collar hero.
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Source: theguardian.com