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George Osborne wants to rewrite history and pretend everything was fine until the vote. Tell that to the people whose lives were shattered by austerity
I could not take the sentimental send-off David Cameron got from the House of Commons when he resigned, and said so at the time. History was immediately being rewritten when it came to this man who had just made the mistake of having an unnecessary referendum. Poor chap. Sorry, but this is just not the case. Cameron’s self-belief deluded others into thinking that he stood for something other than himself.
He was ruthless, and his shininess hid the reality of what his ministers were doing: what his chancellor George Osborne, for instance, unleashed on ordinary people. The decimation of the public sector, the deliberate impoverishment of the already poor was a national disaster. It still is. Continue reading...