SIMON LINCOLN READER: Monstrous unlikeability of George Osborne was huge weight on Theresa May
The civilised world’s political cup of unlikeable personalities runneth over. In the Republican campaign of 2016, Ted Cruz stood out as being unlikeable. Former Independent Democrats Leader Tim Farron is most unlikeable. The EU has Jean-Claude Juncker, Guy Verhofstadt (who is monstrously unlikeable) and Martin Schulz, and before Juncker, there was Herman van Rompuy. But none of these people come close to George Osborne, the former UK chancellor of the exchequer and now editor of the Evening Standard. Make no mistake, had the result in the UK’s general election witnessed a group of north London left-wing maniacs charging to Downing Street to enact upon the British economy the promises they made during their campaign, you would have probably heard the glass smashing from Pretoria. There were many things Theresa May got wrong. She allowed her reportedly belligerent aides to compile the controversial social care policy that repulsed the Conservatives core vote. In an age where the polit...
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