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Ed Randall

Opinion: Osborne and Cameron – proving they are unfit to govern

By Ed Randall | Thu 8th April 2010 - 5:10 pm

George Osborne and David Cameron are given to policy stunts which they should know by now will come back to haunt them. I’ve written about it before  on Lib Dem Voice.

And this time they really have messed up big time. Should they win the election they will undoubtedly live to regret their foolishness on National Insurance and, most especially, the public sector savings they have cavalierly claimed can easily pay for it.

The people who know about these things – not company bosses who are quite understandably interested in reducing their company tax bills – have come out against Osborne and Cameron’s electoral cynicism and imprudence.

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  • Michael BG
    John Kelly, At our Spring 2023 Conference my local party submitted an amendment to Standing Orders (https://www.libdems.org.uk/conference/motions/spring-2023...
  • Jana
    Fully agree. Perhaps we should submit a motion to Congress proposing changes….....
  • Candy Piercy
    Well said Roderick. We need a much more diverse membership at Conference and in our Local Parties. Conference at present is like a lovely house party. You s...
  • Adam
    It's worth remembering that a pensioner in Germany is paying between 12% and 15% of their pension for health insurance. A UK pensioner on the other hand is exem...
  • Peter Davies
    To expand a comment I made in another thread, the policy would make sense if we also rolled back Rishi Sunak's election giveaway (a four pence cut in NI). Ideal...