To think being an MP is a full-time job and being Editor of The Standard is also a full-time job?

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Not for superman George Osborne, though. He has just been appointed Editor of the Standard and will continue as an MP. How delighted his constituents must be.

Answering correspondence from constituents, meeting them, researching issues they raise, reading up on upcoming debates, etc

You mean being an MP, representing his constituency, listening to their concerns etc etc

You'd almost think he didn't take being an MP seriously

Can't think why anyone would think that!

He's also got his 4 days a month gig for an investment fund, and a sideline in after dinner speaking ( for which he earned something like £800k last year, so presumably he's doing at least a few of those every month as well). So I would guess that the MP ing will be fairly far down his list of priorities - apparently his seat will cease to exist by 2020 due to the boundary changes so even if he wants to continue in politics he won't be standing for that constituency again. So why bother about his constituents, they are of no further use to him. Austerity was fine for the rest of the country, but he's having none of it for himself! I think he's awful, the worst sort of politician.

There are late night sittings in parliament, but he thinks he will be up editing at the crack of dawn. What about constituency work? Or even evening standard work like going to events in the evening?

Bloody hell. The Establishment win again.

And how can it be right in a democracy to have a sitting MP of the ruling party running a news outlet? There's no way you could expect them to be unbiased

Yup!

I suppose he could say his earnings are not that excessive for 'TATTON' due to the large numbers of Man Utd Man City ETC players living there,

I actually think he probably thinks like that, such is the 'arrogance' and disconnect with normal life the man suffers from !

Another thing one of Knutsford's most sought after premises was the Tatton Constituency HQ a lovely Edwardian Building ,.

Funny how it ended up as OKA !

How did that happen !

Osborne Cameron .- OKA ... GOING RATE ?

Alltheworld - crack of dawn, or crack at dawn?

And he has flouted the rules -

Greedy bastard and Conflict of Interest

What an epic bellend! Devaluing the work the other MPs actually do and taking an ego trip.

He has no idea - as the chancellor he should try living in universal credit and see how smug he is then.

Him and his hair do should really fuck off. It's surprising he can show his face in public after him and Cameron allowed the backbenchers their way in the EU vote.

Ughhhh - fuming....

Who the Standard chooses as Editor is their business. How much someone is mug enough to pay another person for a speech is none of our concern unless it is our taxes or money obtained from unethical or illegal sources.

Our MPs are paid out of public money and we should expect a level of time and commitment to the job, which Gideon Osborne will not be able to provide in my opinion. It is a safe Tory seat and he should stand down so another member of the party can take his place as MP.

How can a serving Tory MP be an impartial unbiased editor of a newspaper?!

Aren't they merging it with Macclesfield and Cheadle Hulme, so he won't have a constituency for much longer? Bit of a bizarre Tory decision given that you could put up a donkey with a blue rosette around there and it would get voted in, so they are effectively getting rid of a totally safe seat

The Boundaries Commission make the decisions.

Appalling. It flies totally in the face of Teresa May's assurances that we are to become a fairer society.

He's a typical greedy 'I'm alright Jack' Tory

I guess a leopard doesn't change it's spots.

He wouldn't last a DAY on benefits!

Haha! According to entitledto if he and his wife were suddenly unemployed with no savings he'd get £33 a day! I'll bet at present he spends more than that before he's left the house! (Fancy toiletries, posh toilet paper, nice breakfast - and that's not even including the clothes he's wearing which one days outfit likely comes to more than a months UC!).

Btw sw1 1aa is apparently not a valid postcode on the calculator - says it all.

Yep thought so

UC If he was an unemployed oik £1000

Suits £3500!

It's either a safe Tory seat or a seat which is disappearing, but it can't be both. He might be standing down anyway after being thrown out of the cabinet by Theresa May, so what he earns in the private sector won't be anyone's business.

The Standard is constantly campaigning on social justice issues and doesn't tend to take a party-related stance generally. It's about London. MN likes to see blues under the bed.

It's also common for retiree politicians from all parties to take on well paid sinecures in the media and banking. It's mainly about profile/influence. I don't think GO will be burning the midnight oil wearing a green visor.

The journalists on the ES will never see him.
His job will be lunching people and raising the newspaper's profile at the events he is invited to.

Look at all the lovely publicity they have had already.

Pity the poor back bench

My interest is Partly because DH is from Knutsford and we hope to move there (or near there) from Alyesbury when DD2 (yr9) goes off to University.

Here goes, the very fact that Osborne only got '59%' of the vote in Tatton shows how little he interacts or is liked !

If you know the area , you would know that if 'Osborne' was not some pumped up Southern Carpet Bagger sent there for the 2001 GE his vote would be nearer 70%.

The electoral commission are considering reducing the number of Parliamentary seats down to 600 from 650 . Tatton is currently proposed to be one those seats.

The Knutsford part of Tatton would go in with Altrincham and Sale West and become Altrincham and Tatton Park . The seat would probably be represented by Graham Brady the current Altrincham Mp and a much better fit for the area.

Alderley Edge and Wilmslow will go in to the Macclesfield Seat. Handforth will go to the newly created Bramhall and Poynton seat. The new demographics of this seat effectively kills off the Lib Dems who were always very strong in the previous Cheadle seat !

I do wonder if Osborne has decided that he does not give a 'Fucking'Toss' about his constituents any more . But i doubt he ever gave a fucking toss any way about them !

I imagine when he was told in 1999 he was going up 'NORTH' he was Devastated but then when he got Tatton he had actually not really gone up north!

Loathsome man...

Surely this is a conflict of interest? How can he be impartial as a newspaper editor when he is a Tory MP?

The media goes on about the Russians influencing the US election but how is this any different except more overt and arrogant.

Also, how can he be a good MP when he has so many other jobs including working for a private bank (another conflict of interest surely?).

Osborne has a track record for making decisions that seem like a clever wheeze at the time but come back to bite him later. I suspect this is going to be one of those.

In a lot of other jobs, I think it's not that undoable to work on things related to writing related careers alongside.
But being an MP, he must not be allowed that. We haven't got any law left anyway to stop politicians from messing about for their personal gains. So I am not surprised.

The whole farce of second jobs, second homes, expenses, £3000 suits, 'employing' family members, controlling the press, ignoring the electorate needs sorted NOW

I agree Graphista

This has played a very large part in people not trusting politicians and the growth of anti establishment feeling and no doubt played a part in the EU referendum

So many are so out of touch that they can't see or don't care that they are thought of as self serving and greedy and then wonder why they are not trusted

There was an MP on Today last week defending employing his wife as she was the only person possible who could do the job with such dedication.

He didn't seem to grasp the concept that this was taxpayers' money being spent and that it had to be seen to be spent fairly and above board.

George Osbourne is being paid taxpayer's money to do a job. Not to do a job, then do another job in London, do a consultancy job etc. If he claims expenses from the taxpayer for trips to London, a second home etc and does his other jobs whilst claiming expenses for that job, there should be an outcry.