George Osborne - My Fake Diary

Saturday, 18 August 2012

Pressure was put on me for a softening of the government's hardline economic strategy intensified on Wednesday after leading economists who backed the chancellor's plans in opposition called for immediate action to lift Britain out of double-dip recession.

20 financial experts who signed a letter in February 2010 supporting austerity, with only one sticking to an endorsement hailed by Osborne at the time as a "really significant moment in the economic debate" - are now calling for an about turn?

The pratts!