Our favourite 8 takedowns of George Osborne after this happened at the Evening Standard
Editing the London Evening Standard is one of the many jobs being held down by ex-chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne.
People naturally wondered how the former Tory MP managed to do so many jobs at the same time, and perhaps now we know.
SCOOP: Evening Standard to post £10m loss. My @BBCNews blog here: https://t.co/GwCBYByGhK
— Amol Rajan (@amolrajan) June 29, 2018
Perhaps the answer is that he’s not very good at them.
There was no shortage of comments online and here 8 of the very best.
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Uh-oh @George_Osborne , guess it's time to slash arts, health and education reporting and artificially inflate the property section. https://t.co/74E2OL6d0e
— Cassetteboy (@Cassetteboy) June 29, 2018
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Going by the editor's previous form, this will be used as pretext for swingeing cuts, a wrecked newsroom, a newspaper in constant decline – and its editor leaving for another six jobs. https://t.co/BV9zzGG1J2
— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) June 29, 2018
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https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1012677279858724870
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George Osborne has done to the Evening Standard what he did to the nation's living standards https://t.co/JjwQoFFQIy
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 29, 2018
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Can we stop giving George Osborne jobs he’s not qualified to do https://t.co/R1PDz3gDjX
— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) June 29, 2018
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https://twitter.com/MrKenShabby/status/1012672843065298945
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London Evening Standard:
2016: £2 million profit
George Osborne made Editor
2017: £10 million lossThe guy is cursed as a financial fuckwit.https://t.co/X2rUbYw9Wj
— Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) June 29, 2018