Let’s not rewrite Osborne legacy

There was a lot of love this week for George Osborne after his rousing speech in the Commons about Syria.

Or rather, a lot of contrasting with another Bullingdon buffoon who’s now Foreign Secretary, and revising of views on the sacked chancellor.

But before anyone reminisces too hard, let me remind you of Osborne’s role in the biggest crisis currently facing Britain: Social care. Back in 2010, Labour proposed putting a £20,000 cap on care costs, which would be reclaimed from everyone’s estate after they died, if they had it.

It got cross-party agreement until the Tory’s general election strategist, Osborne, sanctioned posters which said: “Now Gordon wants £20,000 when you die. Don’t vote for Labour’s new death tax.” He knew he was scuppering a deal that would have given ageing people re-assurance that they would not have to sell their family home. But still he put personal ambition above national cause.

Well, when you’re soon to inherit a baronetcy, it’s not as though you need worry about paying for your care, is it?

And now that he’s raked in £500k for a few weeks of conning Yanks in speeches that he’s an economic genius, he doesn’t need to worry about the pain his self-defeating austerity policies are causing the worse-off.

Better than Boris? Not really. Same Buller, different day.