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

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

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.

And I think we have to look at Party donations too

Stopping donations becuase you don't like what a party ate doing and contributing when you like what they are doing is just wrong

Osborne is going to be a thorn in the side of May.

It's the start of the downfall of the Tory Party. They alone have to put their house in order.

If he wants to be an editor, he should step down as MP. It's not that difficult an idea.

Then he should see if he can get results instead of being on the Westminster Gravy train...

And be responsible for results - just as most people are in the real world.

But with no credible opposition at all May will be able to handle this quite easily

I very much doubt it's the start of their downfall they are so professional at glossying things over and pulling together this is just a small annoyance but also can be used is May's favour he is of Cameron's party she is leading it a different way

Newspaper editors don't need to be impartial. It's the Evening Standard not the BBC. Plenty of newspapers are already biased to one side, on both ends of the spectrum.

If anyone has got any plans or ideas for how we can reclaim the whole concept of British democracy in the face of these kind of vested interests - another politics/ media marriage no less - I'd really like to know!

I don't know either.

And worryingly, there's a bunch of ultra-wealthy movers and shakers already mobilising the rhetoric of "draining the swamp", to appeal to those fed up with behaviour like Osborne's.

And that bunch are STARTING by opening their own media outlets and funding political parties. So, more of the same.

A multi-millionaire called Arron Banks (whose name came up in the Panama tax-info leak) has opened his own media outlet and claims he's going to get himself 200 MPs by funding them in the next election. He funded UKIP, but fell out with them and is now planning to launch his own movement.

Ukip donor Arron Banks says he has quit party to set up 'Ukip 2.0'
www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/14/ukip-donor-arron-banks-says-he-has-quit-party-to-set-up-ukip-20

Arron Banks launches anti-establishment website
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38650596

Austrian Far-Right Defeated As Country Hasn’t Suffered Enough ‘Rape And Murder Yet’, Says Ukip Donor
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/austrian-far-right-ukip_uk_5844725ce4b0bd623adabce1

Banks moves to launch a competitor to UKIP
www.conservativehome.com/ukip-watch/2016/11/banks-moves-to-launch-a-competitor-to-ukip-threatening-to-do-serious-damage-to-the-peoples-army.html

Banks' news outlet is modelling itself on Breitbart. And his chum Steve Bannon went from Breitbart to "Chief White House strategist" for Trump, and is now on the US National Security Council.

Donald Trump 'didn't realise he promoted Steve Bannon to National Security Council when he signed order'
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-steve-bannon-nsc-national-security-council-order-a7565191.html

See also all the people Trump is employing from Goldman Sachs, political donors, family connections and Trump business connections.

So I'm a more than a little concerned that we'll rush from tits like Osborne, to tits like Trump, Barron and Banks. Different names, same shit.

I want last leg to REALLY start a party? THAT I'd vote for!

I've been a working journalist for the past 20 or so years. Gideon, not so much. And oddly enough I didn't feel qualified to apply for the Standard gig...

And oddly enough I didn't feel qualified to apply for the Standard gig

You've got to really wonder how arrogant someone has to be to apply for such a job as Editor of the Evening Standard without any journalistic experience.

How can you tell a journalist about their work? Mind you, he's probably read the papers so in his view, that makes him qualified

The HoC should have taken the chance to make a rule about second jobs when they gave that big pay rise to the MPs recently but then that golden goose was probably too valuable to them.

It's absolutely disgraceful and obscene imo. And not at all surprising.
Fail in your first choice career? Use the OBN to pursue another career for which you are equally unqualified for, fuck most of the country over, gain lucrative executive positions and then finally a position doing something you couldn't do at a junior level.
No accountability. No shame. No conscience.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
doesn't seem to be a fashionable concept these days.
We need a debate on this.

The interview:

Mr.Osbourne, what experience as a newspaper editor can you bring to this role?

egosumquisum1 -

The interviewee: I made a name for myself in printing - oh sorry, I should call it Quantitive Easing as that confuses people.

twitter.com/davidschneider/status/842823152669528064

hardboiled that's hilarious! And the tweets underneath it.

GardenGeek YES

He's prioritising money and power above providing a decent service to his constituents, Londoners, bank customers, the "northern powerhouse" and the UK population in general. I wonder what his goals are, and what job he's ultimately aiming for, whether it's something EU related, London Mayor, or if he even still thinks he could be PM? I don't trust him, and think Theresa May had the right idea in getting him out of the Cabinet.

Hasn't he got children?

Who is looking after his kids while he works all those hours? That's bordering on neglect surely.

YABU (and i don't even like the twat), but if being an MP is a full time job, how does the Prime Minister and all of the other Ministers manage to combine all their roles?!

George Osborne should be forced to resign as a MP immediately! You can't have 2 full time jobs at the same time with the same working hours. As a MP you are chosen by the people to represent the people. If your aides are doing your job for you then you aren't doing it!

He is a greedy bastard! Can't bloody stand him, smug git