Naked ambition.
He will lay down his country for his life. Someone who works obsessively on his
own future but who gambles with other people's money and rights. A dangerously
dedicated and selfish worker for his own gain. A ruthless liar.
What an epitaph
for a Chancellor of the Exchequer!
He is due for a
shock. Perhaps many shocks as his plans come to naught.
It is for reason
of his obsessive ambition that Osborne has made the most disgracefully untrue
claims of the outcome of the Referendum for Brexit.
He has staked
his own future on the outcome of the vote: if we stay IN, he gets Cameron's
job. If we Leave, he gets nothing except a well deserved kick in the pants. As
a Telegraph headline on Thursday (June 16th) declared, "Chancellor
finished if Britain quits Europe, say scores of Tories."
The claims that
he would bring in an Emergency Budget after a vote for Brexit was the last
straw. That claim alone could damage Britain's ratings, our future borrowing
and trade deals. He has launched the most extraordinary claims of disaster for
the British economy following a vote for Brexit. Instead of focusing on the
best possible outcome, he is fictionalising on the worst case scenario and he
has persuaded his friends on the IMF and other international bodies to do the
same. Why? Because Brexit for George is Curtains. He is staking his entire
career in a gamble that he can kill the Brexit surge with his dire predictions
of disaster, job losses, tax hikes and austerity. So that he can replace Cameron as Prime Minister.
But he is a fool
without political judgment. Few in the Conservative Parliamentary Party will forgive
him or vote for him as a result. Few if any Conservative MP's would support him
in a leadership election. Following his announcement that he would, after a
vote for Brexit deliver an Emergency Budget involving tax hikes and austerity
cuts, he was lambasted. Sixty-six Conservative MP's said they would vote down
such a Budget. Labour would not support it either, and in the Daily Telegraph
Business section, the respected columnist, Ambrose Evans Pritchard wrote that
Osborne should "no longer be trusted with the keys to 11 Downing
Street."
I agree. He has
already messed up the housing rental sector and has caused three revolts in
Parliament over his ill judged Budget austerity cuts on the poorer people in
our society.
Worse, Osborne
still believes he can become the next British Prime Minister. But he can only
do so if British voters choose to Remain in the EU.
Otherwise he is
very definitely OUT of the running. Therefore he is lying and twisting the truth
to serve his own ambition: even if his claims damage his country.
His fraudulent claims
that the rich will be the ones to benefit from Brexit, delivered last week in
Porthmadoc, North Wales are the exact opposite of the truth. The rich, whether
citizens of the UK or international power brokers and financiers, businessmen
and elites of all kinds are clearly the ones to benefit from a vote to Remain
in the EU. The Brexit vote belongs to the poor, the hard working middle classes
and those who believe in Britain as their nation and who have had enough of handing
control of their destiny to unelected committees of other countries and the unelected
EU government in Brussels.
During and after
Cameron's failed negotiations with the EU, Osborne was buzzing from capital to
capital trying to fix his future by ratting on Britain's interests. He is visibly prepared to sacrifice his
country to his own goal of becoming Prime Minister.
He will never
make it. Nor is he capable. In the Cameron/Osborne deal forged on the anvil of
the Blair/Brown deal, he will fail. Why?
Because he does
not have what it takes to govern 'one nation' or to be that special unifier of
a government called "First Among Equals."
Osborne must go.
And the faster, the better, for the good of this country.
No comments:
Post a Comment