Osborne warned against punishment Budget

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The final straw, the last throw of the dice, the end is nigh.

Osborne escalates Project Fear. Alastair Darling, fresh from the Scottish Referendum, will be by his side. As they try to scare the people on advice from their most senior advisers who have nothing left but to throw caution to the wind, the result will just be laughter as the British sense of humour mocks the scaremongers and strengthens their resolve to say

"Oi, Osborne, no"

"GEORGE Osborne has been warned against using a “nuclear bomb option" in the Government's Project Fear campaign after it was claimed that the Chancellor intends to panic the markets to get a Remain vote."

www.express.co.uk/news/politics/679878/Osborne-warned-punishment-Budget-panic-markets-Remain

If the people win and vote out, if it turns out to be a rout, I think Cameron may be gone before sundown, but Osborne will now probably follow soon after.

This is a new broom, the British people are going to sweep up.

Well it certain,y explains why he thinks Brexit is a financial disaster, he wants to engineer it that way! That's so mad.

I haven't RTFT but I just thought I'd pop by to slightly derail by telling you this thread came up in 'active'.

I read the title more than three times wondering what a Punishment Badger was.

Time to go to bed.

apathetic
Yes watch out Gidz, the punishment badger is coming to get you!

Obviously this Osborne budget is not going to happen but it helps insofar as it drives home the message that this country is very likely to plunge into economic turmoil should Leave really win next week. This will put further strain on public finances that are already stretched.

Something will have to give, chances are that this 'something' will hurt and those infamous GBP 350 million will not be available because the UK will still be a member of the EU (and even if it were, it would most likely not be enough to cover the shortfall caused by the economic crisis).

So while Osborne's budget suggestions were unhelpful, the reasoning behind it is sound.

Like his namesake in Vanity Fair, who is also a nasty piece of work, George Osborne will come to a sticky end - and very suddenly.

Is there a George Osborne in Vanity Fair?

I only recall Becky Sharp. What did Osborne do in it?

But Gideon said he was going to sort the finances out by, what was it?, oh yes 2016. So the public finances should be tickety boo now, surely?

Oh no, sorry, they're worse now than when he started. Gideon presents a bigger threat to our economy that Brexit or Bremain.

Please let GO in Vanity Fair have been eaten by a badger

George Osborne in Vanity Fair is a selfish fool and a faithless husband, who gets killed at Waterloo before his wife Amelia (Becky's friend) finds out what he's really like.

I'm a Remain voter and I am at Osborne's intervention but let's face it, why wouldn't the Tories play on fears? It's exactly what worked for them in the general election. They scared the electorate away from a Labour-SNP coalition. And look where it's got us.

Tendon, this isn't playing on fear though, it's announcing punishment for voting a certain way. And by means of a badger

Thanks, TendonQueen, I am now going to have to reread it. Last time was over 30 years ago.

'why wouldn't the Tories play on fears?'

I think it is disgraceful on such an important issue for these public servants to exaggerate to such an extent that they may fool the people they are supposed to serve. If they are prepared to do that, as we all know they are, then what else are they prepared to be dishonest about?

the badger is Mr Darling

'What else are they prepared to be dishonest about?'

This is exactly what I am worried about with a Leave vote. We are then entirely in the hands of the Tories, with no EU human rights act or workers' rights legislation to protect us - they'll roll it all back the minute they can, to make business 'more competitive'. I don't trust them an inch, and that includes Gove and Boris.

Now resisting the temptation to Google 'badgers in literature'. I really should read some of Trollope's political novels. They're supposed to be good. It'll give me something to do while the pound plummets and the economy gets even worse.

I think it is disgraceful on such an important issue for these public servants to exaggerate to such an extent that they may fool the people they are supposed to serve. If they are prepared to do that, as we all know they are, then what else are they prepared to be dishonest about?

I agree

They say you get the politicians you deserve and it's shown during this referendum that we are just not prepared to hold our politicainas to account.

We have allowed them to distort figures, uses public funds to gain advantage, and gerry-mandered. They have resorted to tactics that would have made Mugabe proud.

I think I shall stop fighting to restore our sovereignty now.

When your grandchildren are drafted into President Junckers EU army to 'protect the EU's foreign policy' and fight wars to enlarge the EU empire, and when our NHS collapses under TTIP and the weight of free access by 508 million EU citizens, don't come crying to me. I did my bit to warn you. You only have yourselves to blame.

This is exactly what I am worried about with a Leave vote. We are then entirely in the hands of the Tories, with no EU human rights act or workers' rights legislation to protect us - they'll roll it all back the minute they can, to make business 'more competitive'. I don't trust them an inch, and that includes Gove and Boris.

This should not be a party political decision. Ny writing that you are demonstrating that you have no faith that any Government will ever have polices that appeal to the British people other than the Tories.

You are surrendering your sovereignty because you don't like the Tories. Good luck explaining that to your children when they are totally ensnared by the EU.

'This is exactly what I am worried about with a Leave vote. We are then entirely in the hands of the Tories'

If you listen to Gove and some of the others, you will see that the Tories as they were are now finished. Some of our political class have been liberated from the groupthink they all obeyed. The Leave Tories are going to put more money in the NHS, renegotiate trade deals, control immigration and some of them oppose TTIP. It is a whole new world. The whip structure and groupthink of agreeing with their chums has been shattered, they have split with Cameron and Boris mocks him and Osborne's scaremongering tactics.

Cameron is now finished and so is Osborne, so the rmaoning Tories will completely rethink what they stand for as we leave the EU and become independent. Everything will have to be rethought and everything will change.

Labour and the Tories will be completely discredited and all the great and the good and the "experts" will be a joke. So the Tories will be completely transformed.

Springing "They say you get the politicians you deserve"

I don't know why. I used to be quite politically active but the odds are so stacked for the corrupt, I don't know what anyone can do about it.

We can Add the Garden Bridge to the list of things GO can find money for...

If Brexit happens and causes major change, maybe some good will come of that.

'"They say you get the politicians you deserve"'

We only get them because of our cosy elitist Oxbridge two-party first past the post system that the Establishment likes.

If we vote for Brexit, then the people will have repudiated the entire Etablishment and all its cronies in office, and that will require a fundamental reform of how we are governed and of our electoral system in order to instil confidence in democracy for the people.

Milly of course yes, Alistair Darling is the Punishment Badger. He's going to follow Gidz around intoning about fiscal prudency until the end of times. Lurking in his nightmares, watching as Gideon's career goes down the toilet.
That's a happy thought for today.

Darling as the punishment badger 😆......

Hovercraft - yes I think they will.