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The UK's part-time Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne+ has again drawn attention to the Conservative leadership's cosy ties with the predatory American advertising giant Google. Yesterday, the Financial Times ran an op-ed piece jointly-bylined to Osborne+ and Google chairman Eric Schmidt+. It's highly unusual for a …

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  1. Code Monkey
    Coat

    8.3

    2012 and still no support for long file names? Pffft!

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  2. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

    Good news for the lorry drivers

    Since pretty much 100% of imports and exports end up on a lorry at some point, and all the stuff going around the middle is on a lorry - then lorry drivers must contribute something like 300% of GDP. And so should be in for a lot of treasury-love come budget time.

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    1. John Styles
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      Re: Good news for the lorry drivers

      Hence the government's panic at a potential drivers' strike, though I hear there are plans to get Google to deliver the petrol using TCP/IP (The Chocolate-factory people's incredible pump)

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  3. dotdavid
    WTF?

    Plus-one

    Surely it should be +George Osborne and +Eric Schmidt.

    Obviously you're not a Google+ user*...

    (* or "the" Google+ user, har har yes very good)

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  4. andreas koch
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    So

    >>>

    ...

    Last week we revealed that the IP review ordered by Prime Minister+ David Cameron+ was based on a fictional quote, attributed to Google, that nobody could find. Now we have fictional GDP calculations, made up for the Government by Google.

    ...

    <<<

    now we know where the bovine fertiliser comes from.

    Does it help?

    Nope.

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    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge
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      Re: So

      At least with this lot you only get pointless PR releases based on some imaginary info found on the internet - with the last lot you got wars

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    So Who's Runnig the Country?

    Better Check on Google.

    as the Condemnd have no idea...

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  6. Tigra 07

    What it comes down to...

    Do you trust Google or the government more?

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    "At least it's becoming clearer who's really in charge"

    That's rather disrespectful and, if I might say, just a little bit subversive.

    Keep it up.

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  8. Will Godfrey Silver badge
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    Clearly the government is operating absolutely normally.

    Move along - nothing to see here.

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