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George Osborne

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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
British Politician
Economist
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George Gideon Oliver Osborne
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We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.
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There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.
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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.
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Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.
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Britain is China's best partner in the West.
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I believe in public services.
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If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.
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Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
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We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.
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I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
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