First the Pasty tax and the change of mind over static caravan VAT; now Osborne has changed his mind over tax relief on charitable donations. If Osborne carries on with his rate of U-turns he's going to need a sat nav to find his way back home. :)
Whilst being no fan of Mr Osborne, I do find it refreshing when politicians are prepared to admit that something's wrong, and to reverse their decisions.
Refreshing yes, but hardly confidence building. A better way of proceeding would be to research your proposals properly before announcing them. I see a group of ex-public school boys and their wives sat around a dinner table in Chipping Norton when one of them shouts out, "Hold On! I've had an idea......!"
The critics say you aren't listening .... so you listen and agree with them and change your mind ...... then your slagged off as being weak by the same people. ::)
Yes there's a bit of that, particularly from the opposition whose goal is always to claim a scalp. Even so, some of these ideas seem to fall at the first fence so a bit of basic research beforehand wouldn't go amiss.