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Budget betting : How long? What will he say? What colour tie? How many sips of water? etc

Budget betting : How long? What will he say? What colour tie? How many sips of water? etc

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Sporting Index budget spread markets SportingIndex http://t.co/U2fOqryMuA budget spread betting pic.twitter.com/DvU3YWbYIi — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 19, 2014 William Hill Some of the Budget betting specials from William Hill http://t.co/3DhorKEjnt pic.twitter.com/97abVvpwYz — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 19, 2014 Ladbrokes Ladbrokes http://t.co/5ytVwnr30K budget buzzword bingo pic.twitter.com/ppnX98eJ4z — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 19, 2014 PaddyPower The PaddyPower http://t.co/45A6m2316P first budget cliche betting odds pic.twitter.com/CDwdfwvTfn — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 19, 2014

On this day before Osborne’s 2012 Budget ICM had the Tories 3 points ahead, the last time any poll had a CON lead

On this day before Osborne’s 2012 Budget ICM had the Tories 3 points ahead, the last time any poll had a CON lead

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ICM Guardian poll March 2012 And in this March 2012 poll UKIP was on just 1% If it should be that the Conservatives are not in government after the next general election then a lot of the blame will be attributed to the March 2012 budget and the way the government reacted in the weeks and months that followed. Until that point in the electoral cycle, as the ICM poll for March 2012 illustrates, the Tories were doing quite well…

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Reconsidering the case for George Osborne as next Tory leader

Reconsidering the case for George Osborne as next Tory leader

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The fury of Boris over Osborne – the story that dominates Mail on Sunday front page pic.twitter.com/WTo5vm3731 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 2, 2014 You can get a bet on him at 15/1 Until now I’ve always discounted George Osborne as Cameron’s successor. He generally polls badly and has nothing of the charisma or presence of a Boris or a Dave. Yet the message from the reported flare-up between the Chancellor and the Mayor is that Osborne wants it badly…

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Osborne could have a branding problem that would make him an electoral liability

Osborne could have a branding problem that would make him an electoral liability

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pic.twitter.com/Wv1pnN50y8 — PolPics (@PolPics) December 7, 2013 Voters turn against when told that a plan has his backing Yesterday’s Ipsos-MORI poll on the Autumn Statement raises an issue that could be troublesome for the Tories as they head into the general election – a branding problem when George Osborne is involved. Back in March the firm asked people to choose between two statements about the best way to deal with Britain’s economic difficulties – either tackling the national debt or…

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Does the government care that household debt is soaring?

Does the government care that household debt is soaring?

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HenryGManson asks Does the government care that household debt is soaring? New PB Thread http://t.co/8WK28EM4eL pic.twitter.com/j16apwPMPH — TSEofPB (@TSEofPB) November 29, 2013 We often hear politicians refer to the national debt, at which point Fraser Nelson will republish his chart showing the latest figures the government owes and that either the Chancellor or Prime Minister is telling fibs. This week Nelson added ‘although I hate to say it, the Labour Party has a valid point to make. If you don’t adjust…

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Some of the headlines after the big statement are not quite what Osborne must have been hoping for

Some of the headlines after the big statement are not quite what Osborne must have been hoping for

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The Sun’s treatment highlights the danger of Twitter When I first saw Osborne’s pre-sending review statement Tweet with a picture of himself at his desk eating a burger it looked like a mistake. It was just too contrived and in any case the Chancellor is always going to have a battle convincing us that he’s a man of the people. This is how the paper is reporting it:- “The Chancellor tweeted a snap of himself “finalising” work on his spending…

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Methinks that George should have put economics before the politics

Methinks that George should have put economics before the politics

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Osborne making his spending review statement pic.twitter.com/GeC6KVmkwC — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 26, 2013 He’s becoming more like Gordon Brown at every turn The thing that struck me most about Osborne’s spending review statement was how little it had to do with the economics and how much it was about setting the political backcloth for GE2015. In this, of course, you have to remember that as shadow chancellor, first under Michael Howard and then under Cameron, Osborne sat across the…

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