George Osborne is keeping us locked into austerity while peering down from his gilded Treasury tower

Axe man: Osborne has butchered public sector

It'll be a Tale of Two Britains when George Osborne delivers Wednesday’s Budget.

Because the Chancellor of the Exchequer lives in a baloney land, unrecognisable to inhabitants of the real world.

He’ll hear the jeers and whistles of dissent as he packs his papers into his red box.

By chance, thousands of demonstrators will be marching past Downing Street on the morning of the Budget.

They’ll be prison officers protesting against falling wages, worse pensions, mounting assaults and privatisation.

Hounded Osborne will find no escape when he reels off higher tractor ­production statistics from the despatch box.

The House of Commons will be crawling with wardens lobbying MPs ahead of a rally in the building.

Wednesday’s mass show of resistance is by jailers but with millions of victims yearning to convict Osborne for economic crimes, the POA union and its thoughtful general secretary, Steve Gillan, speak for many in the real world.

Osborne’s recovery isn’t worth the ink wasted on printing obtuse statistics when ConDem austerity creates the longest fall in living standards for generations and the most prolonged cut in the value of pay since the Victorians.

Even the Queen is complaining about the ­treatment of the poor with scandalously half a million relying on food handouts in the world’s sixth largest economy, although I note Her Maj’s concern doesn’t extend to housing the homeless in Buckingham Palace’s spare rooms.

Rampant inequality is ripping the nation apart, Oxfam revealing the combined £28.2billion wealth of the country’s five richest families is more than the poorest 12.6million Britons own put together.

It’s against this scabrous reality that Osborne’s spin will be taken with a mine of salt, a remote Chancellor uncaring as he peers down from his gilded Treasury tower.

And he’s incompetent. Osborne has the Sadim touch, the exact opposite of Midas. Everything this Chancellor touches turns to dust.

He’s missed umpteen growth and deficit targets and lost his Triple A rating, a personal gold standard. Osborne’s disastrous ConDem austerity imposed with his yellow Tory friends in the Lib Dems crushed Labour’s recovery, leaving the British economy 1.4% smaller than before 2008’s crash.

In the US, where Barack Obama recognised cutting spending strangled growth, it is 5% bigger.

Fragile economic growth is ­undeniably returning here despite Osborne, and the Chancellor has a brass neck to claim credit.

What is Osborne’s shameful responsibility is the growth in food banks, loan sharks, charity shops and zero-hours contracts.

On Wednesday, for prison officers read nurses and teachers, low paid and insecure workers and young people unable to get a start.

Most Britons, the majority of the country, are victims of Osborne’s ideological mission to reshape the UK in the interests of a tax-dodging wealthy elite.

The tab is picked up by workers stripped of rights, pay and hope.

Dismantling public services is shrinking permanently a state – hospitals, schools, prisons, armed forces – we rely on under political cover of reducing a deficit created by greedy banksters.

Protesting prison officers will be in the real world on Wednesday while George Osborne is stuck in his baloney land.

How will we know the Chancellor is lying about Britain?

We’ll see his lips move.

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There is a recovery for some and misery for others. Claiming that unemployment is down on the back of people taking up zero hours contracts or part time work just masks the fact that people are underemployed and struggling but they claim that this government are delivering what the country needs.

It's a scandal.