Osborne’s Failure

If this has been a disappointing spring for David Cameron, it has been a calamitous season for George Osborne. The notion of Prime Minister Osborne has always struck me as odd but, on present trends anyway, it is one that need not trouble us any longer. I fancy many voters are able to resist the Osborne charm and though the “common touch” is not essential to success some basic understanding of how your decisions may be perceived surely is. And Osborne appears utterly deficient in that department. For a so-called master strategist he appears hopeless at tactics and, perhaps, strategy too.

As Andrew McKie, writing in the Herald, puts it today:

The reality is that Mr Osborne’s roles as principal strategist and chief tin-rattler for the Exchequer are fundamentally incompatible. And the electoral lunacy of some of his policies indicates that it is the second of those jobs which is guiding his decisions.