By George, has he got it?

Iain Dale has been blogging on some of the deep reservations some on the right have about George Osborne. Basically they wonder if he is up to the job! He quotes Fraser Nelson from The Spectator as saying:

Despite numerous charm offensives, Mr Osborne is still not winning them over. Financiers who attend his soirees grumble that it is all politics and no economics. When asked about economics, I am told, he becomes rather glum and evasive. But when asked about political strategy, his face lights up. There are no specific policies causing the City particular concern, but rather a general impression, which one hears repeatedly in the City, that the soon-to-be-chancellor has no expertise — and not even much interest — in the job he is about to inherit.

He is being damned on the flimsiest of grounds.

Doesn't this say much about Osborne! The man's problem, if it is a problem, is that he is well versed in Machiavellian politics involving personal attacks on senior Labour figures and spreading nasty gossip about chats he shared whilst on holiday, but lacks gravitas when it comes to it. The man has all the political standards and attitudes of an unpleasant sixth former in trying to be verbally unpleasant to one group of people so as to try and impress another group. Perhaps David Cameron may soon have to consider making pragmatic judgements with regards to his old friend.