Villains of 2011: Part 5

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George Osborne
George Osborne

5. George Osborne
Sovereign debt, euro crisis, the pension deficit and the pain of austerity - the Chancellor George Osborne has become the figurehead of all that is wrong in today's Blighty.

The man who once folded towels in Selfridges and now runs the UK economy delivered his Autumn Statement with resolve but had to admit all his numbers were wrong. Like Dr Frankenstein, the monster he created, the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), turned on him.

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