Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "George Osborne and Paddington Bear – the UK’s most powerful centrists? | New Statesman Podcast" video.

Osborne is a hard right Thatcherite Austerity Raised VAT Lowered Corporation tax ( which they spent on share buy backs) Small state
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@michaelmccomb2594 being socially Liberal while being a raging Thatcherite on economics doesn't make him a centrist + Austerity which basically shrank the economy. He was told back in 2013 the economic paper it was based on was a pile of cr@p and the OBR estimated economic multiplier wasn't 0.5 it was calculated as costing 1.6 so actually shrinking the economy
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@michaelmccomb2594 The thing Tories fail to grasp is Thatcherism was a One Off the tax cuts where paid for with Oil money and they didn't generate the growth. If your interested Origin Story did a couple of excellent podcasts Centerism : Stuck in the middle with you Neoliberalism : everything is for sale
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