What else should George Osborne be crying about?

April 17, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Five Other Things Which Should Bring A Tear To Osborne's Eye The big story of the day is that George Osborne has working tear ducts. The chancellor of the exchequer was caught on camera, at Margaret Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday morning, crying. He was clearly moved by the service at St Paul's and a great fan of the Iron Lady's. Here are five other things that might make our lachrymose chancellor want to shed a few more tears.  Continue reading... Margaret Thatcher Pips Tony Blair In Prime Minister Poll Unemployment Increases By 70,000 To Hit 2.56 Million Abu Qatada: Home Office Attempts To Take Deportation Bid To Supreme Court WATCH: New Zealand MPs Sing Maori Love Song After Approving Gay Marriage Five Other Things Which Should Bring A Tear To Osborne's Eye WATCH: New Zealand MPs Sing Maori Love Song After Approving Gay Marriage IMOGEN LLOYD WEBBER Don't Cry for Thatcher's Children Would I be the person I am today without Thatcher? Would I have worked as hard as I did at school, not flinch when debating a roomful of men -- or a Fox News host live on air -- without "The Iron Lady" as an example? I doubt it. Continue reading... MARK PIGGOTT 'The Eighties Ended Today' I left school in 1983, the same month Margaret Thatcher won her second election. In my Yorkshire hometown there was disbelief that once again the south had returned to power someone who had transformed the industrial heartlands in much the same way the US infantry transformed Baghdad. Continue reading... JOHN BUNZL The Right Mourn Thatcher; The Left, Any Sense of Direction "Divisive" is the word that perhaps most accurately characterises reflections on the recent passing of Baroness Thatcher. But paradoxically, as David Cameron pointed out today, the day of Mrs. Thatcher's funeral, "we are all Thatcherites now". Continue reading... MATTHEW REED Children - The Real Victims of the Benefit Cap The aim of the benefit cap, according to the government, is to promote fairness between working and non-working adults by targeting workless adults. But the reality is that it is children who will be paying the price. Continue reading... ASSED BAIG Boston Bombings: The West's Selective Grieving On the same day as the Boston bombings at least 33 were killed and 160 wounded in a string of bomb attacks across Iraq. Attacks which did not take place before the US led invasion of the country. The same media coverage was not afforded to the dead in Iraq, nor did Obama seek to comment on the issue. Continue reading... You have received this UK Politics email from AOL (UK) Limited, who provides UK Politics. You can choose to stop receiving these emails at any time, by clicking on UNSUBSCRIBE in any MyDaily email you receive. We respect your privacy and will never forward your data on to a third party without your consent. For full details of AOL's (UK) Limited's policy click here. AOL (UK) Limited believes the information contained in this email to be correct but makes no guarantees as to its accuracy. Copyright © 2012 AOL (UK) Limited AOL (UK) Limited, Shropshire House, 11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.