How long will it be before someone with video editing skills will merge this song and Osborne’s conference speech? Maybe Tory Bear should get a move on, as he’s very good at this kind of thing…

It’s nice to see some:

The big discussion in British politics for the foreseeable future will be how to tackle the debt crisis and deliver quality public services when spending is tight, and Gordon Brown has taken his party to the sidelines of that discussion. Believe me, I have seen what happens when political parties refuse to face the facts of the modern world. It condemns them to irrelevancy for a generation.
That does not mean the Conservative Party can escape our own challenge. We, like Labour politicians, have fought shy of …

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What does Lord Tebbit mean by this comment?

If you sleep with dogs, you will get fleas.

Is his meaning:

Osborne secretly sleeps with canines;
Osborne has fleas;
Tebbit has slept with a dog and has caught its fleas, and is passing on the warning;
Tebbit wants to get his name in the papers and be recognised again.

Answers on a postcard…

Whatever it is that he has done, it’s not illegal.
So he had meetings with a rich Russian. And? So have lots of people. What the basic facts of this are:

No money has been donated to the Conservative party by Deripaska or any of his companies
No law has been broken.

The worst claim that can be made against Osborne is that he is guilty of having a lack of common sense and a malfunctioning of his political antennae.
No, he shouldn’t have been having meetings with a Russian billionaire, especially not when …

The big announcement in George Osborne’s speech today was that the next Conservative government is to freeze council tax for two years. Not as electrifying as last year’s inheritance tax proposal, and harder for a Labour government to steal.
Obsorne said:

The country may not be able to afford upfront tax cuts because borrowing is too high but families facing the squeeze cannot afford tax rises either.
So we’re going to go into partnership with local councils. If they find matching savings in their town hall, we will give them these savings from …

Quite obviously the man who has presided over it, either as Chancellor, with responsibility for managing the nation’s finances and economy, or as Prime Minister, ultimately responsible for all govenment policy.
As Cameron said yesterday:

Who was it who said that he, and he alone, had rewritten the laws of economics to end boom and bust? The answer is our prime minister, the then chancellor, Gordon Brown. And my message to Gordon Brown is this: ‘You have had your boom, and your reputation is now bust.’

And George Osborne reiterated today:

While the regulation …

A very simple summary of the 2008 Budget:
Taxes: Up. Again.
And here is George Osborne’s videoed response to Brown’s Darling’s Budget:

Labour have already announced that they have stolen the Tories plans on Inheritance Tax and non-doms – and now they’re at it again.
This policy that Andy Burnham, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has just announced shows that Labour has no ideas or policies of their own. He claimed in an interview in the Telegraph today that there is a “moral case” for promoting the traditional family through the tax system – despite rejecting the policy in July when it was proposed by IDS, claiming that it would “discriminate” against some …