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George Osborne market snake charmer, Estates Gazette


Conservative Chancellor charms the markets to encourage a favourable return to growth in the UK economy.



An exponent of laissez-faire free market economics the Chancellor believes the market should decide. Such rigid ideology is always doomed to failure as the world is never that simple and even Adam Smith warned of the dangers of the untethered market in the treatise 'The Wealth of Nations' which is the economic textbook of choice for most right wing Capitalist regimes across the world.

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