Conservative Party Conference: George Osborne speech

Conservative Party Conference: George Osborne speech; - And not just for big companies, important as they are - but for the small businesses too / You don't need to tell me about the sweat and the hard work and the dedication that goes into building a successful business / I've watched my father do it all my life / He set up his own manufacturing business forty years ago / The fortunes of the business were part of the rhythm of my childhood / The excitement when the new order was won; the long silences when sales were down; the pride that comes from building a business - I want many others to fulfil their aspiration of owning their own business / So we are the low tax party / But it is a mark of our seriousness about lower taxes that I will not promise un-funded, undeliverable tax giveaways to dress up a press conference in an autumn election campaign - For this party lower taxes aren't just for Christmas / They are for life - The new economic revolution also demands that a government that knows how to look after money and spend wisely / The government has borrowed in a boom - and now there's nothing in the bank if rainy days lie ahead / And Gordon Brown has the cheek to pose as the nation's bank manager - The nation's bank manager / He put up taxes to pay for the NHS and got Derek Wanless to make the case / Now even this trusted adviser admits most of it was wasted, so yet another report has to be commissioned / What a bargain / 37 billion pounds to go from Wanless to clueless / The nation's bank manager / He told you he'd help the very poorest and now the numbers of the very poorest rise by 600,000 - The nation's bank manager / He told you he'd look after your pension then he launched his 100 billion pound raid on savers - The nation's bank manager / Who cost us all two and a half billion pounds by selling our gold at a record low, when it has now reached a record high - Gordon Brown / The nation's bank manger / Let's start queuing round the corner to cl...