Thread by @MattCarr55

@George_Osborne So true. But then if you and your millionaire pals hadn’t gutted communities across the country and then asked those same communities to vote for the status quo in a poorly-planned and poorly thought-out referendum then we might not be in this mess in the first place, would we?

@George_Osborne And then there was the targeting of migrants through an obscene ‘hostile environment’ policy to distract attention from the damage you caused. The problematising of immigration in response to unfounded ‘concerns’ - the only concerns you ever listened to.

@George_Osborne ‘ A bunch of migrants’. Remember that? Remember when Dave went off to Brussels to try and ‘win concessions’ after he got in a state- along with Nigel - about all the poor Bulgarians and Romanians who were going to invade us?

@George_Osborne And all the ‘health tourists’ - never counted - who were supposedly milking ‘our NHS’ - the underfunded NHS that you and Lansley were opening up to ‘competition’ so that Virgin etc could bite chunks off it. Remember that?

@George_Osborne And all the people who died after their benefits were cut, and they were declared ‘fit for work’? You know, the ‘scroungers’ who weren’t part of ‘hardworking Britain’ according to you?

You spread division and hatred. Drained the life out of a society you thought you owned.

@George_Osborne And all the time you kept the constant drumbeat going. Migrants. Migrants. Migrants . Immigration. Scroungers. Invasion. Emergency brake.

Helped by your pals in the Tory Press. You never counted numbers. Never checked stats over who was coming or going. Why bother?

@George_Osborne When it was all so useful? And then, you and Dave thought you’d have a little flutter. Gamble with the nation’s future. Have a little referendum. Just to, you know, firm up the party. Keep UKIP at bay. As Sayeeda says, you never thought you’d actually have to stage one.

@George_Osborne But then you lost your coalition partners so you had to keep your promise. Whoopsie! But what the hell, remember those Bullingdon Club days? Never had to pay for the damage you did then, did you? So what the hell, let’s do this.

@George_Osborne And you lost, in part because you were so fucking useless. In part because it turned out millions of people actually believed the crap you fed them about migrants and immigration. In part because a lot of people were genuinely suffering and hated you and Dave.

@George_Osborne It didn’t matter. You quickly picked up about three jobs and quadrupled your salary, or was it more? One forgets.

And now you want us to see you as the wise decent chap all along.

Now you’ve owned Fraser Nelson.

Well done.

Now please fuck off.

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