£3bn mistake in George Osborne’s budget plan

Posted on October 10 2009

Revealed: £3bn mistake in George Osborne's budget plan | Politics | The Guardian .

We all make mistakes, of course.

But I'd have thought Osborne might have a) double checked this and b) had the grace not to blame his assistants when it's been shown he was wrong.

And this really does smack of incompetence. As the Lib Dem, Steve Webb, showed on 6 October, the plan made no sense, and he reasoned that just by applying some common sense logic to the numbers.

Which says to me that Osborne lacks the ability to apply that common sense logic to numbers. Which is very worrying for someone who wants to be chancellor.

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  1. James from Durham says:
    October 12 2009 at 10:14 am

    Those of us who work in the tax/accountancy world surely know that after you have done all the clever number crunching stuff, you have to step back or, better still, get someone else to step back and look at the picture and ask does it make sense? Quite often it doesn’t.