George Osborne

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. ↗

— George Osborne

#decisions #economy #foundations #government #programmes

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. ↗

— George Osborne

#continuing #creating #economy #grow #haven

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast. ↗

— George Osborne

#been #forecast #larger #oil #oil prices

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself. ↗

— George Osborne

#day #each #guy #i #i can

Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook. ↗

— George Osborne

#benefits #cope #disabilities #family #get

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail. ↗

— George Osborne

#bail #banks #big #deeply #fail

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure. ↗

— George Osborne

#british #british people #funds #infrastructure #investing

Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out. ↗

— George Osborne

#conservative #i #independent #just #labour

Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families. ↗

— George Osborne

#away #benefit #child #criticism #example

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system. ↗

— George Osborne

#cannot #debts #system #tackle #tackling