George Osborne is unfit to hold office | John McDonnell
by John McDonnell from on (#181K4)
This chancer of the exchequer's budget has unravelled. He must take responsibility for cold political decisions with no basis in economics or morality
It's said that a week is a long time in politics - but under this chancellor a weekend is the length of a "long-term economic plan". That's exactly how long George Osborne was able to stand up his own budget before it collapsed.
It's unprecedented in modern history for a budget, the centrepiece of a government's economic policymaking, to disintegrate so rapidly. Yet Osborne has achieved it.
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