George Osborne to Edit Evening Standard

[ploughyourownfurrow]

Is this some April Fool's piece which slipped out early by mistake?
Large swathes of Britain with no jobs, not proper ones anyway, while he's snaffled four jobs!

I think you'll find he has SIX jobs.

This the idiot who managed to get a B in one A level.

I suspect it's something to do with Evgeny Lebedev (standard owner) and his political / tax haven opinions. But I don't know what >

There must be a conflict of interest here, an MP and Tory party member as editors or a newspaper?

*editor of

I wonder what relevant experience he put on his application form?

Appalling conflict of interests. One of his constituents has started a petition to get him to resign.

And one of his six jobs is Director of the so-called Northern Powerhouse. No conflict of interest there with editing a London-centric paper. He'll be using it as a powerbase to derail Brexit.

He still hasn't got over being sacked from the cabinet by Teresa.

Does he know the first thing of the nuts and bolts of journalism?
Does he know what 350 words of copy looks like without having to do a word count?
Can he condense copy?
Can he apply critical judgement across a range of potential news items?
Does he have a working knowledge of defamation outside the protection of parliamentary privilege?
Can he change a layout with one eye open?
Does he have a creative understanding of fonts/production tools?
I can only imagine that this role is a titular one. Someone with a clue will do the job while he takes the credit!

I'd be seriously pissed off if I was one of his constituents. Working as editor of the paper 4 days a week AND being an effective MP? Surely impossible?

He's been roundly attacked in the ST today.

I can't stand the man personally. There is something repellent about him.