A FEW CHOICE OSBORNE TIDBITS…

The one and only George Gideon Oliver Osborne

Just ahead of the Spending Review, did you know…?

• George Osborne was in fact born Gideon Osborne – he changed his name at the age of 13 after his grandfather.
• He took Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a drinker’s degree 2.1.
• He was a member of the Bullingdon Club (But I think we already knew that 😉
• During the expenses scandal it emerged he had ‘flipped’ his second home bagging him an estimated 55,000. He also claimed £47 for two copies of a DVD of his own speech on “value for taxpayers’ money”.
• The Financial Times describes Osborne as “metropolitan and socially liberal. He is hawkish on foreign policy with links to Washington neo-Conservatives and ideologically committed to cutting the state. A pragmatic Eurosceptic”.
• He has an estimated personal fortune of around £4 million, as the beneficiary of a trust fund that owns a 15-per-cent stake in Osborne & Little, the wallpaper-and-fabrics company co-founded by his father, Peter Osborne

So… a phoney, not very academic, none too bright, Bollinger swigging, dodgy dealing, rabidly right wing, trustafarian rich kid. Happy days.