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George Osborne's Dad Wants A £19,000 Desk

Posted: 21/04/2012 17:30 Updated: 21/04/2012 17:30   PA

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George Osborne's father has risked embarrassing his son by giving details of his lavish lifestyle in an interview.

George Osborne's father has risked embarrassing his son by giving details of his lavish lifestyle in an interview.

Sir Peter Osborne told the Financial Times' How To Spend It magazine that he was planning on buying a £19,000 desk.

The Baronet, who co-founded prestigious wallpaper and fabric firm Osborne & Little, also discussed his love of exclusive holiday destination Mustique and Savile Row suits.

The comments emerged with the Chancellor struggling to shrug off Labour criticism for cutting the 50p top tax rate for high earners.
In the FT, Sir Peter said one of his favourite recent purchases was a Tahiti lamp by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass, which he got from auction house Christie's.

"The thing I'm eyeing next is a wonderful Fornasetti Architettura Trumeau desk at Themes & Variations," he added. The magazine lists the price of the item as "from £19,000".

The businessman described Mustique as an "unforgettable place".

"I was lent a villa by an Italian friend and we went with some of our family in January," he said.

Sir Peter insisted his sense of style in clothes was "very poor". His "personal style signifier" was a navy-blue, off-the-peg-suit from Savile Row tailor Richard James, and a tie from renowned Paris designer Charvet.

Labour backbencher John Mann said the interview showed why the Budget had been so heavily criticised.

"Clearly we are not all in it together," he said. "George Osborne does not know how the vast majority of the country live.

"He has got no idea about people's daily lives. This lack of experience of the real world is why his Budget has been such a disaster."

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George Osborne's father has risked embarrassing his son by giving details of his lavish lifestyle in an interview. Sir Peter Osborne told the Financial Times' How To Spend It magazine that he was p...
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Laatab
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07:34 PM on 04/23/2012
Well I know little about his dad but given the lack of tact displayed it probably indicates why his son never developed a sense of empathy. Empathy is the number one attribute necessary in a political leader for without it we get the shambles we are in now.
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emillio11
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03:08 PM on 04/23/2012
I can only echo and applaud the comments made by John Mann. We need leaders that firstly know how to lead, know how to take the public with them and don't play foolish with the poor public and the British pesnioners. Osbourne has to go and the sooner the better for all of us.
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jagppm
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04:36 PM on 04/22/2012
But he can't give his own sister a helping hand as she walks the streets of Stockport in rags
Just becourse she has learning difficalty WHAT A SHIT FAMILY THE OSBOURNE's ARE
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mmartini54
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04:07 PM on 04/22/2012
...and according to yesterday' Guardian, Cameron's dad made his fortune by stashing cash in various tax havens around the world.

Yeah, they're just like us, ain't they?
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casual agent
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04:21 PM on 04/22/2012
Yes he did'...read today in The Sunday Mirror'..No wonder they have no appertite for Banker Bashing'?..Osborne' The Orginal Robber Barron'........Yeah I'm sure they're feeling the pain.!!
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tc-byrne
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12:38 PM on 04/22/2012
What a load of cobblers, he earned his money so he can spend it how he likes.
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04:32 PM on 04/22/2012
..and that great big Tax Cut they've given themselves' at the expense of others losing out on Tax Credits'and such..?
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tc-byrne
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04:54 PM on 04/22/2012
So you'd prefer him to sit on his money, hoard it away instead of recycling back in to the economy, if it wasn't for the fact that he's osbourne's old man nobody would give a t**s.
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emillio11
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03:14 PM on 04/23/2012
yes he can, we don't doubt that he spends his money as his wishes but how is he suffering like the rest of us? In what way is he and his bonkers son 'in it together' with the rest of us? Should we have his spendthrift mismagement of his wealth thrown in our faces. Someone said it on here before, the Osbourne attitude to the 99% is; ''Let them eat cake.'' I'd like them to eat my boot.
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tc-byrne
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04:57 PM on 04/23/2012
Well 2nd attempt, what as anything you've said here, got to do with anything I've posted, a part from he can spend his money how he likes.
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Takethemike2
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11:31 AM on 04/22/2012
His Dad and many other politicians Dad's should have had vasectomies and then we wouldn't be in such a mess as we are in now! 15K desk in deed while the English people starve!
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Margaret T
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04:08 PM on 04/22/2012
While English people starve? Talk about over the top! Why shouldn't someone buy a desk, whatever the price, if they can afford it? What's it got to do with anyone else?
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Takethemike2
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05:31 PM on 04/22/2012
This is why we are in such a mess when there are people like you that thinks and acts this way! Shame on him and shame on others like him!
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mmartini54
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04:09 PM on 04/22/2012
That's 3K more than my hardworking son, who refuses to contemplate going on benefits, earns in a YEAR. A YEAR. Where's the fairness?

I can't begin to tell you how I feel about this bunch of.....
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04:38 PM on 04/22/2012
Exactley,mmartin54.I to have hard working sons who lead different lives and have different earnings,who still think the same,this goverment are out of touch,inexperienced,do the job to get into the history books,hope they are voted out at the next general election,my instincts tell me labour to win because lets face it this goverment were not voted in on merit.
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Margaret T
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01:52 PM on 04/23/2012
Life isn't fair, is it? Never has been. But why vilify someone who has earned their money, not inherited it or embezzled it, for spending it?.
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sand171
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11:21 AM on 04/22/2012
Who truthfully gives a hoot what he spends his money on, I don't give a rats whether he is alive or not.
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floridaroy
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10:28 AM on 04/22/2012
Sir Peter made his money from a company he founded.
It is his money to spend as he wishes.
Those who complain could try doing the same!!
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Margaret T
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04:09 PM on 04/22/2012
Good comment.
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mmartini54
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04:11 PM on 04/22/2012
He sure didn't make his money from the sweat of his own brow...he made it of the backs of real hardworking people...like many a parasite.
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floridaroy
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04:46 PM on 04/22/2012
You do not know the man but if you think that is the case why haven't you done the same?
I suggest you do a bit more research before you cast aspersions.
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Margaret T
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01:47 PM on 04/23/2012
If people like him didn't start up businesses and invest their own money there wouldn't be jobs for hard-working people.
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The Seagull
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11:10 PM on 04/21/2012
The Tories will sort out the mess left by Labour. It will be tough but we are all in it together! Hahahahahahahahaha! It actually makes me sick. People still vote for them though. Am I missing something or am I the only non-milionare in the country?
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Christos Palmer
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07:22 AM on 04/22/2012
Scary that people DO vote tory, even after all their nonsense, still, what the people decided is their own choice and fault.
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rba2753199
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11:17 AM on 04/22/2012
Tell me which labour government since the forties has ever left the country solvent?
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floridaroy
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10:25 AM on 04/22/2012
if you are the only non millionaire - ask yourself why!
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The Seagull
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05:57 PM on 04/22/2012
I'm not exploiting enough people? Or i'm just too nice?
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kevinrb8
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10:50 PM on 04/21/2012
Oh dear Sir Peter not only is your dress sense poor the career advice you gave that smug little runt of a son didnt go very well either
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tickeli
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08:59 PM on 04/21/2012
For some the word 'together' doesn't exist!
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emillio11
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03:19 PM on 04/23/2012
Well said Tick. Short and to the point. Good for you.
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adriannicholas1
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06:26 PM on 04/21/2012
Daddy Osborne already spending the money his 'little' son gave him from the public Budget 50p tax cut to 40p for UK's richest, shows this does'nt actually help UK economy,....since Daddy's money's being spent on foreign imported goods and holiday.

So much in the 1% being able to re-invest in UK growth then, George!
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rba2753199
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11:20 AM on 04/22/2012
& Milliband & Balls aren't better off as well? You must be a labour supporter that cannot count,the rate is 45% not 40p or are you thinking of the rate that would apply after Millibands recent calculations? The theory of the 45% band is that fewer rich would find ways to avoid it as they have the 50% band.
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adriannicholas1
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06:32 PM on 04/22/2012
Yes, both, the latter, andl Milliband, Cameron and Osborn, certainly being another 'indiect' trust fund beneficiary! Manysenior politicians have a indirect personal beneficial relationship with a two tier deregulated economy and globalist tax avoidance planning.
The 'theory' of the 45p band is as erroneous as the former 'trickle down tax' and that prvatization of public service cost less is myth.
Bringing in another approx. 235,000 people into the 45p tax band - certainly offsets against the other policy myth of minimal income from the 50p tax band when actual treasury figures and delayed liability projections are taken full account of in actual and expected returns.
However, the real impact of widening the number of people within the 45p band, contrary to income proprtionality by such means. Is also the creation of a ringfencing of a crowd to hide in - that means the small number of the 50p per capita , are in effect masked by the incrased overall number within 45p.
Consequently, when median income disparity is accounted within the increased number of people proportionate the those in the former 50p rate, the latter's wealth/tax accumulation comparitive to new media, and therefore to the median within national tax overall - will be shifted to benefit rich at expense, and inversely proportionate, to new higher number of people paying the 45p.
Even this cannot hide the income disparity of uk society as whole now apprimate to 1918 disparity levels.
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adriannicholas1
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06:33 PM on 04/22/2012
This does not amend, the growing trend for higher execs to be paid as limited company consultants even though their main income ( formerly salary) may be from one source.Perhaps, one should also note Osborn's aquisence in lowering corporation tax, despite not closing the loophole that allows hq's to be moved offshore to avoid former tax liability - and would further note that Eire with europe's lowest corporation tax, to attract investment, was widely held to have made not one iota of difference to their govt's debt liabilities when large banks became dangerously close to insolvency- and requiring Osborn's loans made in 2010, and in exactly the same consequence and regard as Browns, to rescue those institutions from collapse and knock on consequences following the debt liabillity and overvalings left from the interactive relationship of eire govt. and development banks and companies following the credit crunch of 2008 from same- and to which QE and inverting of supply and demand in the private rented market sector , that despite assistence of both pickles and schapps at wider societal expense, cannot yet shore up bank book property values enough to offset as negative liabilities , as latest GDP figures confirm
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04:27 PM on 04/22/2012
Well Said adrian.
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