George Osborne

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George Gideon Oliver Osborne is a member of the Conservative Party, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2010. A blue blood, he's the heir apparent to the Osborne baronetcy and a descendant of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in Ireland as the Ascendancy.

[edit] Politics

He gained notability for running David Cameron's campaign for party leadership; he became Shadow Chancellor while the Tories were in opposition versus New Labour. As Chancellor, Osborne is responsible for the economy of the United Kingdom, and is personally responsible for the neoliberal budget cuts to social spending and hiking of taxes to the workers. Namely, he derided stay-at-home moms for their "lifestyle choice" and punished them by denying them tax breaks that working mothers will get.

[edit] Controversies

George reached some level of intrigue in 2014 when it was revealed that evidence of his brother Adam's conversion to Islam and marriage to a Bangladeshi Muslim in 2009 was removed from European Google searches through the "Right to be Forgotten" law.[1][2]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia link to be hidden in Google under 'right to be forgotten' law, The Guardian, August 2014
  2. Now Google BANS Express story about George Osborne’s ‘Muslim’ brother, The Express, July 2014
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