George Osborne’S European Triumph

Today, equally a consequence of negotiations amongst European Union finance ministers over the UK’s additional contribution to the European Union budget next upward revisions to United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland GDP, George Osborne said:

“Today I tin say this: instead of basis the bill, nosotros choose halved the bill, nosotros choose delayed the bill, nosotros volition pay no involvement on the bill.”

This would choose been quite a result, given that whatever reduction inwards the UK’s contribution would choose meant another European Union countries getting less than they expected. All the to a greater extent than remarkable given that the Financial Times reports that:

“Officials involved inwards the closed-door negotiations betwixt finance ministers said Mr Osborne did non complain nigh the overall bill. Instead, the ground focused on delaying the payment, which volition permit the British regime to pay later the full general election inwards May.”

So was “halving the bill” a final infinitesimal gift from other European Union finance ministers? Had the Commission gifted the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland roughly coin without telling anyone else what it intended to do? Neither, of course. The Chancellor had made that fighting up. He had precisely subtracted the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland rebate, which the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland was going to larn anyway. Treasury officials tried to propose that this rebate had been inwards uncertainty earlier dissever talks amongst the Commission, but the FT reports Commission officials equally proverb that the rebate was never, always inwards doubt.

So spell the residue of the dry soil reported that the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland had failed to larn its additional contribution cut, the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland media dutifully repeated the Chancellor’s claim that it had been halved. BBC journalists were clearly suspicious nigh what had gone on, together with then their website led amongst “Osborne's European Union budget claim challenged”. But they couldn’t convey themselves to genuinely written report that Osborne’s claim to choose negotiated a halving of our additional contribution was wrong. After all, he is the United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland Chancellor, together with then certainly he wouldn’t pretend he had done something he had not. Some lowly MP powerfulness play fast together with issue amongst numbers, but non the human being inwards accuse of the UK’s finances. I suspect many inwards the media choose nevertheless non fully appreciated what a unique Chancellor George Osborne is. 

When the UK’s leading supermarket chain, Tesco, discovered that they may choose overstated their profits yesteryear mistiming roughly payments, 4 senior executives, including its United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland managing director, were suspended spell the thing was investigated. "Disappointment would live on an understatement," said Tesco main executive Dave Lewis. So volition the UK’s main executive, David Cameron, live on reprimanding the Chancellor over his faux claims? No, because given the stress that Cameron position on reducing the amount additional contribution precisely earlier the negotiations, it is clear he was inwards on the deceit. Unlike Tesco, they shout out upwardly this form of deception is precisely business office together with package of their business, together with of course of study they too shout out upwardly that they tin larn away amongst it.