Originally Posted by Mr Angry (Post 35328998)

Shock, horror abatement......

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35329169)

Are you telling me that the man in charge of the uk's finances during one of the worst recessions ,possibly soon to depression,in recent times has absolutley no formal financial back ground ....and is also creepy.

It would apear you are correct



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Osborne

It would apear that if the UK was faced with a towel folding emergency then he's the man for the job :D

Originally Posted by murfitUK (Post 35329210)

I seem to recall a Channel 4 documentary last year which showed how George "We're all in it together" Osborne keeps his family's wealth offshore to avoid paying UK tax on it.

The Dispatches programme is no longer available to view (at least, I couldn't find it now) but there is a petition if anyone wants to sign it.

http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/o...taxes#petition

(Have you noticed how he always smirks when he says his catchphrase?)

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35329224)

His lack of formal experience appears in line with his recent predecessors, whose education/work experiences were

Chancellor 1997-2007 MA & Phd in History, lecturer in Politics, journalist/editor at STV, MP
Chancellor 2007-2010 LL.B, Barrister, MP

;)

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Is there one for the Millibands' "Deed in Variation" as well? ;)

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35329260)

It's to do with the "no formal economic qualifications" part of the thread header...;)

Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35329268)

Who in the government or the shadow government has:erm::erm:

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35329169)

It would apear that if the UK was faced with a towel folding emergency then he's the man for the job :D

Originally Posted by The Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."