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  1. [17:46] British Museum in talks with Greece over sharing Marbles

    The head of the British Museum, George Osborne, said a reported deal with Greece to end a decades-long dispute over the highly contested and priceless Parthenon Marbles was "still some distance" away.

    rte.ie/news/2024/1204/1484711-

    #theBritishMuseum #GeorgeOsborne #Greece #decades

  2. "We have made the difficult decision to mend the public finances so everyone benefits in the long term...

    "I won't shy away from making unpopular decisions now, if it's the right thing for the country in the long term."

    Exactly the same arguments as made by George Osborne in 2010

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

    #UKPol #Labour #Tories #KeirStarmer #GeorgeOsborne

  3. Peter Mandelson is toxic and Labour is too scared to distance itself from him.
    I guess because he knows where all the skeletons are buried as that is part of his trade.

    #UKPOL #UKpolitics #PeterMandelson #GeorgeOsborne #OlegDeripaska #Labour

  4. #GeorgeOsborne's #HelptoBuy scheme (now wound down) has not been the success he claims.

    as Phillip Inman concludes, its 'real legacy has been to massively inflate the market, swell housebuilders’ profits & leave many buyers in negative equity' as well as underpaying the building of a lot of shoddy #housing.

    Who really benefitted? Surprise, surprise, the major construction firms; not the people who Osborne claims did well out if the scheme.

    More #tory bullish*t
    theguardian.com/society/2023/m

  5. I'm spotting a pattern here:

    First #JeremyHunt attempt to wreck the #healthservcie while Health Sec. then on the bankbenches tries to claim to be the voice of reason (and is feted as such by the media) on #healthcare reform;

    now #GeorgeOsborne (as chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership), ex-Chancellor & stealth cutter of funds to #localauthorities argues that the UK needs to remove the role of the #Treasury from local Govt

    Damascene conversion or more #Tory hypocrisy?
    take your choice!