But only four years ago that same organ was skewering Mr Osborne for his "omnishambles" Budget.
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Such is the state of British politics in the Brexit era: a true and complete omnishambles.
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His predecessor George Osborne's reputation took years to recover after a botched budget in 2012, which opponents dubbed an 'Omnishambles'.
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May's speech might offer a potential breakthrough on settling the EU-UK breakup — or it might devolve into more omnishambles.
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Meanwhile, the state's biggest utility, PG&E, is a debt-ridden, mismanaged omnishambles currently being chewed over by a bankruptcy court.
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The state of the British government was merely an "omnishambles" (which Oxford Dictionary recognised by making it UK Word of the Year).
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The results of the Iowa caucus are still rolling in, after the results reporting turned into an omnishambles of tech malfunctions and phone queues.
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The Trump team's public handling of the economic negotiations — so far — makes even senior officials doubt that this omnishambles will change any time soon.
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In 2012, after a budget derided by the opposition Labour Party as an "omnishambles", he dropped plans to apply value-added tax to food typically bought by poorer households.
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The blame in the Senate's health care omnishambles is attaching to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and understandably so — he wrote the bill, he designed the process, he owns the result.
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The ensuing furore rekindled memories of the Tories' "omnishambles" budget of 2012, when the government had to eat its words and reverse a tax on hot takeaway-food, a controversy known as pastygate.
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As with the climate crisis, we are not yet technologically advanced enough to stop this happening easily and entirely—but we do have the information and the practical capacity to stop it being an extinction-level omnishambles.
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Politicos and journalists need a story in which Trump's stumbling and grasping can be construed as a savvy media strategy, a "distraction" from some other wrongdoing he has going on, or a "pivot" from his current omnishambles.
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In episode 1 of series 3, the word "Omnishambles" was coined by Tucker to describe Nicola Murray. The word was created by Thick of It writer Tony Roche. Following this many notable politicians used the phrase, e.g. Ed Miliband used it during Prime Minister's Questions on 18 April 2012 to criticise the Government's 2012 budget.
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Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as a writer of the HBO comedy Veep, the BBC Television series The Thick of It and its film spin-off In the Loop. He is credited with inventing the word omnishambles, which was named 2012 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary.
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TPO suffered reputational damage in 2016 after a transfer of customers from 3G to 4G service led to many of them waiting for weeks without phone service. The company's transfer was described as "omnishambles" in a report about how hundreds of customers had been forced to wait more than three weeks without phone service, and frustrations multiplied by "hour-long phone calls that are not answered, emails and tweets being ignored and comments on TPO’s Facebook page being deleted".TPO Mobile customers left with no phone service in 4G switching 'chaos', Cable (Existent Ltd), Phil Wilkinson-Jones, 24 August 2016.
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The 2012 budget – dubbed the "omnishambles budget" by the then Labour leader Ed Miliband – is viewed as the nadir of Osborne's political fortunes. Osborne cut the 50% income tax rate on top earners, which he said had been specially designated by his predecessor as "temporary", to 45%. Figures from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs showed that the amount of additional-rate tax paid had increased under the new rate from £38 billion in 2012/13 to £46 billion in 2013/14, which Osborne said was caused by the new rate being more "competitive". Osborne faced criticism for simultaneously proposing imposing value added tax (VAT) on food such as Cornish pasties when served at above-ambient temperature.
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Upon finding out that on top of Nicola's problems she also has claustrophobia, Malcolm freaks out and calls her an "omnishambles". He forces Nicola to reconcile the conflict of interest by choosing between "fucking up [her] daughter's life and fucking up [her] husband's life", but promises to help her implement her long-term policy ideas on social mobility. Malcolm tries to improve Nicola's image by taking her to a dinner at the Guardian; but this is compromised when a huge data loss occurs in the immigration database that DoSaC is responsible for. Malcolm is further infuriated when Nicola accidentally lets go of the data loss in the presence of a freelance journalist.
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On 27 March 2020, Nemer told the host of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks that the country needs randomly to test at least one per cent of the population to determine whether COVID-19 is as lethal as the population is led to believe. Nemer's "observations are right at the centre of a global clash of scientists over COVID-19 data and estimates of the seriousness of the pandemic," says Terence Corcoran, a writer at the National Post. Corcoran observed that the grim warnings of Neil Ferguson's team at Imperial College have been contradicted by Oxford University epidemiologists led by Sunetra Gupta. On 3 April, Corcoran pointed out that only proper sampling such as that advocated by Nemer will reveal the truth, and that in the omnishambles caused by reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, governments already have "adopted massive and unprecedented interventions into the economic and daily lives of every individual".
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