Shouldn't this lot be on the cyber bullying thread?

This coming from the man who predicted 'not much growth' between the start of last year and the next election and, after being proved comprehensively wrong refuses to hold his hands up and admit it. Cringeworthy.

Is there something wrong with him sounding 'a bit Jewish'?

Oy vey and he should have had his Bar Mitzvah at 13 already the schmuck!

No. But then you look at Ed M's attempts at leadership and policy making and wonder .

It's the nose.

It's the space between the ears.

You have to love Ed Balls.



For years he had been asking the Tories to adopt Plan B.



Now he says he wants to balance the books by 2020.



Austerity is the aim of the game.



After being outmanoeuvred on the economy at every turn he now wants to adopt the Tories plan A. Maybe he thinks the Tories are doing such a good job nowadays he should just do as they do.

You really do need to read what is actually said and not what you believe is said

Balls wants austerity after moaning about it for years.



Labour have no credibility on the economy.

There really is absolutely no point in either explaining or debating with you. I may as well talk to a horse

The feeling is mutual. Bye then.

Not at all, its just that if its true that he changed his name because he thought that sounding a bit Jewish would affect his chances of progressing in politics then its all the more fun to keep reminding him of the fact, to be honest I think I'll start calling him Moses instead.

I think that would be wise.



There are real comparisons between how Moses saved the Israelites and how Osborne has saved the economy.

The last thing we need is for politicians to walk up mountains and talk to voices in the sky, look what happened when Blair and Bush did that.

Fair point!

He changed it because he was an arrogant little teenage tosspot who had already decided he wanted to be PM, and because he thought it sounded a bit too Jewish to help him in that. Allegedly.



For which reason, it is entirely apt to keep remembering.







So alleged anti-semitism is okay from a teenager?







His fingers are in his ears now. You can't put facts to him. Polls, perhaps (as long as they fit his 'thoughts'). But not facts.







Good that you're creating jobs. Excellent. But where is your evidence for this claim?



In the meantime, have you bothered to address those questions on ethics – or are you still finding them too difficult or are slightly embarrassed that you clearly didn't know what I did for a living, after being so certain that you did?







No. That's the point.

Abusing a 13 year old boy is a new low for you.

You really are too precious for this interweb mallarkey

Oh, indeedy. I've got my own little Tardis parked on the patio so that I could do it.

The problem with anything that's "alleged" is that it could just be simply made up so people can point and go "look, look isn't he she awful", it's a neat trick usually done by our glorious press.



So, I'll do you a deal, you come back with some evidence that a 13 year old boy wanted to change his name because he thought it was too Jewish and then I'll stop thinking that you're just an angry bag of not very much who gets their kicks from, well, just making up unpleasant things about people they don't like very much. Branding a 13 year old anti-semitic based nothing more than you don't like him. FFS. Grow up.

GEORGE OSBORNE - AN ANTI-SEMITIC ARSEHOLE: WHEN DID GIDEON OSBORNE BECOME GEORGE OSBORNE - AND WHY?



In his sympathetic new biography of the chancellor, FT reporter Janan Ganesh says it was on "the eve of moving 'up' to St. Paul's School in 1984" that Osborne changed his name.



This has surprised 'Old Paulines' of his generation, who insist Osborne was still Gideon when he started at the school and remained so for another couple of years.



"There was no doubt that he was well into his 'career' at St. Paul's at the time," says one.



"It was a comical event, the name change, and much talked about."



As for the question of why, Ganesh says that:



"Theories abound ... Osborne has always said that he simply did not like the name, so he changed it. But it may also be that he was already set on a career in public life and feared that his baroque and rarefied name might hold him back."



In fact the reason was rather more specific, an old scholl chum tells Lord Gnome.



This friend greeted Osborne in the 'Periodicals Room' outside the Library on the first day of term with a resounding:



"Ahoy, Gid! How goes?" - only to be told that "actually, it's George now".



"Really?" said the boy. "Why's that?"



"FRANKLY" the teenage Osborne explained:



"I CAN'T SEE THE BRITISH PEOPLE ELECTING A PRIME MINISTER WITH SUCH A JEWISH FIRST NAME."



(Private Eye No.1330 22nd Dec. 2012 - January 10th 2013)





Allegedly.

I thought he wasn't worth wasting anymore of your time on but I see you jumped in rather fast with this one.



Let us believe for a second that he did in fact change his name because he didn't believe the British people would elect a prime minister with such a Jewish first name.



Anti-semitism is hatred / discrimination / prejudice toward Jews.



If the reasoning above was correct then Osborne changed his name not because [uhe[/u wanted to discriminate against Jewish people but because he thought that others might discriminate against him because of his name.



Therefore there is no anti-semitism. George Osborne can in no way be described as anti-semitic.

I've been offline for most of the afternoon - I'm not sad as to wait for posts to be written and jump on them as soon as. I didn't waste time on him. I googled him and found it in seconds, like BobbyD could have done but instead chose to wind up Minty in pretending she'd made it all up.



I didn't say I agree with her or believe the article, more like just showing it was out there.



Allegedly.

Oh, well, there we are conclusive proof. FFS.

Plus, if you take that statement in isolation, how the hell is it anti semitic. He's basically calling the UK electorate a bunch of bigots. Which, if you really think about it, he's that not wrong. The dogs abuse Thatcher gets for closing less mines than Wilson in the Peoples Republic of Yorkshire shows misogyny reigns over that side of the hills.