George Gideon Oliver Osborne,MP (born 23 May 1971 in Paddington, London) is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001.
Osborne is part of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in Ireland as the Ascendancy. He is the heir to the Osborne baronetcy (of Ballentaylor, in County Tipperary, and Ballylemon, in County Waterford).
He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, University of Oxford, before entering politics.
Osborne is the eldest of four sons. His father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, co-founded the firm of fabric and wallpapers designers Osborne & Little. His mother is Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, the daughter of artist Lady Clarisse Loxton Peacock.
Originally named Gideon Oliver, he changed his name to George when he was 13. In an interview in July 2005, Osborne said: "It was my small act of rebellion. I never liked it. When I finally told my mother she said, 'Nor do I'. So I decided to be George after my grandfather, who was a war hero. Life was easier as a George; it was a straightforward name."
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Poorly George Osborne
2014 Autumn Statement: George Osborne's budget (03Dec14)
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George Osborne: Speech to Conservative Party Conference 2014
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MarrShow: George Osborne interview (07Sept14)
MarrShow: Chancellor George Osborne quizzed (08Feb15)
Ed Balls vs George Osborne on banking investigation (05July12)
Chancellor George Osborne Conservative Party Conference - Truthloader
Budget 2014: George Osborne's 2014 budget (19Mar14)
Plot
The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.
Keywords: 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 19th-century, ambition, aristocrat, army-captain, art-dealer, artist
In a time of social climbers, Becky Sharp is a mountaineer.
All's fair in love & war.
On September 1st, a heroine will rise.
Becky Sharp: Two men and two men only will enter my bedchamber. My husband and the doctor.
Becky Sharp: Revenge may be wicked, but it's perfectly natural.
Becky Sharp: Are you trying to steer me towards an indiscretion?::Rawdon Crawley: Would you like me to?::Becky Sharp: No man has managed it yet.
Amelia Sedley: This is all just a blessing in disguise::Becky Sharp: Well, the disguise is convincing
Miss Matilda Crawley: Keep your toadying until I get to a fire. You can suck up all you wish once I'm warm.
Miss Matilda Crawley: Oh, please tell me there's something disreputable in your past::Becky Sharp: Well, my father was an artist::Miss Matilda Crawley: Ah, that's better, a starving one I hope::Becky Sharp: Absolutely ravenous
Mrs. Sedley: I thought her a mere social climber, but now I see she's a mountineer
Miss Matilda Crawley: [Rawdon gives Becky a note, and there is a sound as she throws it into a bowl of water] What was that?::Becky Sharp: Nothing. False note.
Miss Matilda Crawley: How do I look?::Becky Sharp: A good deal stronger. They will be disappointed.
Maria Osborne: George is engaged. It's understood.::Mr. Osborne: And it can be un-understood.
Plot
Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
Keywords: 19th-century, ambition, auction, based-on-novel, based-on-play, battle-of-waterloo, boarding-school, boardinghouse, brother-in-law, brother-sister-relationship
HSBC tax evasion question: George Osborne vs Ed Balls (23Feb15)
Poorly George Osborne
2014 Autumn Statement: George Osborne's budget (03Dec14)
Is George Osborne Tripping Balls?
George Osborne: Speech to Conservative Party Conference 2014
George Osborne Addresses HSBC Tax Evasion Claims
George Osborne: Watch The Full Hotseat Interview
George Osborne vs Evan Davis at Davos (22Jan15)
Dennis Skinner MP Calls George Osborne a Cokehead
MarrShow: George Osborne interview (07Sept14)
MarrShow: Chancellor George Osborne quizzed (08Feb15)
Ed Balls vs George Osborne on banking investigation (05July12)
Chancellor George Osborne Conservative Party Conference - Truthloader
Budget 2014: George Osborne's 2014 budget (19Mar14)
George Osborne easy Newsnight interview on economics / EU (03Nov24)
George Osborne on Northern industrial 'power house' (09Jan15)
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Jeremy Paxman suprises British MP George Osborne
Ed Balls vs George Osborne on Scottish independence (16Mar14)
MarrShow: George Osborne on UK economy (30Nov14)
George Osborne on his Autumn Budget and more cuts (04Dec14)
Labour leader Ed Miliband replies to George Osborne 2014 Tory Budget
George Osborne on mayors, EU migration, and tax spending (03Nov14)
George Osborne on gay marriage, HS2, and his constituency
George Osborne interview (14Feb10)
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Newsnight: Osborne - "China more market orientated than British Labour Party"
The Chancellor and the Dominatrix - UK
Autumn Statement interview with George Osborne
SkyNews: George Osborne pre-2014 conference speech (29Sept14)
George Osborne on economic plans - Newsnight
George Osborne interview by Andrew Marr, part1 (28Feb10)
Rebecca Harris MP interviewed on George Osborne and the UK Economy
George Osborne on latest claimed spending cuts (28May13)
George Osborne on the economy - Newsnight
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ITV Daybreak, George Osborne before keynote Conference speech (03Oct11)
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George Osborne on deficit reduction and confidence (30Jan11)
George Osborne at BOE on economic policies (14Jan15)
Chancellor delivers 2014 Budget Statement - Wednesday 19 March 2014
George Osborne 2014 Mansion House speech (12Jun14)
Queen's Speech economic debate, George Osborne (15May13)
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George Osborne Europe speech (15Jan14)
2013 Autumn Statement: George Osborne mini budget (05Dec13)
QT: George Osborne sticking to guns or just stubborn on economy (21Mar13)
2013 Tory Party conference: George Osborne speech (30Sept13)
Spending review: George Osborne statement (26Jun13)
UK Parliament -- Chancellor delivers 2013 Autumn Statement
George Osborne speech on welfare reforms (02Apr13)
Alex Salmond speech rubbishes George Osborne on Scottish independence bid (17Feb14)
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