George Osborne appointed editor of London Evening Standard

WTF?

doesn't he also have a highly paid part-timer at Blackrock?

Yes, he has a very lucrative (£650k pa), one day per week, gig at an investment firm. Tbf, I don't know if he's going to remain in that post when he takes up his position with the Standard.

Presume this is not fake news. So what experience and qualifications has he got for this job ? And exactly what credentials has he got to edit a newspaper ?!!  No experience whatsoever to do this job !

He's come a long way since his towel folding days.

He's taking the piss continuing as an MP if he is REALLY going to be hands on at The Standard.

On leaving university, he intended to pusue a career in journalism. From Wiki:

In 1993, Osborne intended to pursue a career in journalism. He was shortlisted for but failed to gain a place on The Times trainee scheme; Osborne also applied to The Economist, where he was interviewed and rejected by Gideon Rachman.[11] In the end he had to settle for freelance work on the Peterborough diary column of The Daily Telegraph.[12] Some time later an Oxford friend of his, journalist George Bridges, alerted Osborne to a research vacancy at Conservative Central Office

Good luck to the paper. If he does a good a job as he did with the economy , it'll fold within two years.
Then again a Tory editor of a Right Wing MSM paper - who'd have thunk it  !!!!

andrew neil boiling with rage

in a dream world if he thinks he can remain an MP

pressure on him to stand down will be intolerable. will be gone by end of next week

that picture is so nauseating, bet not one of them knew what the price of milk was

He does seem to have a habit of getting into farcical situations involving Russian oligarchs.

First there was that misunderstanding over an alleged request for an illegal £50,000 donation from aluminium magnate Oleg Derepaska, while holidaying on the latter's yacht with Nat Rothschild and Peter Mandelson.

Now Aleksandr Lebedev, the former KGB station chief in London, appoints Osborne editor of the paper he owns.

What is it that attracts these Russians to the the little chap?

They want to know what it's like to work with someone called Gideon.

An absolute disgrace! Does this greedy little rat have no shame at all? I hope his constituents have an early opportunity to repay him for the contempt and disdain that he is showing them.

Not on!

Whatever you may think of Dacre (and he is a odious ****), he's good at what he does, but it requires him to work 12 hour days.

Of course Osborne is grossly unqualified for this position, but that's the owner's concern, not ours. Where it is a concern is that a fully paid Member of parliament has taken a second job requiring massive amounts of his time, meaning that he is unable to do the job required of him by his constituents. This is wrong. In addition, it gives to a massive conflict of interest.

It's pretty simple: MPs should be barred from taking second jobs while in office.

*gives rise

It would be bad enough if it was a second job, but it isn't! It's not even a third or fourth job. Apparently he now has six!

An odious Individual who Was named Gideon by his Parents

He has no qualification to do ANY of the jobs he's done.

All that's wrong with our political system.
Also virtually single-handedly he has caused misery and hardship to most of the population (who he's 'supposed' to work for with the unbending adherence to "Austerity"
Not personally affected though, eh?

cabinet ministers are rarely qualified to do the job that they are asked to do, so that hardly makes him unique.

Dominic Cummings couldn't be more right on all of this. The majority are trained in bluster and bullshit through their PPE degrees, allowing them to paper over their outrageously unqualified appointments, catastrophically flawed decision making, a pathological aversion to admission of fault, no project management experience and it's all neatly wrapped up in a bundle of sickening narcissism and Machiavellian scheming.

We need a new party, with new values, attracting the right sort of people to stand as MPs.

He did leave one exquisite, glorious legacy as Chancellor of the Exchequer though - Section 24 of the 2015 Finance Act. That's the clause whereby, from April this year, rent received by landlords will henceforth be counted as pure income, and be subject to income tax as such. A tapering allowance for interest on any mortgages the landlord holds will only apply AFTER the income tax calculation.

What makes it such an exquisite torture for borrow-to-let landlords is that the vast majority appear to be too idle to work out all the implications: that they will find themselves entering the 40%-plus income tax bracket, and that their income will overnight rise to preclude them from all the tax credits and other benefits they've been claiming.

In addition, when they find they're losing money every month and try to sell up, they'll find themselves in the 28% Capital Gains Tax bracket.

It's a beautiful piece of legislation to take down the filth who think they've been clever by exploiting a tax break with borrowed money they never intended to pay back (interest-only mortgages innit).

Thank you for that, Sir Gidiot.

some twaat on 5live said earlier... it shouldnt be a problem, he will just have to get up earlier in the morning.   

Disgraceful.  I hope his constituency lynch him.

While on the subject, I wonder if being Prime Minister is considered a full-time job and that the incumbent should resign their constituency position?

MPs should have to fill in timesheets which are scrutinised to make sure they put in the hours. Too many of them treat it like a gentleman's club (funded by the taxpayer)

all this surgery talk,when was the last time multi millionaire gideon has sat in a surgery and listened to someone worried about paying a 30 quid gas bill,he,d just give,m the money out of his pocket to get rid of them,he,s probably never took a surgery personaly for 10 years