What is Osborne up to

What happened to the political bipartisan unity that was promised over the global financial crisis?

George Osborne's much touted article is now available online and he makes it clear that he has broken cover

After a weekend of Gordon Brown in the spotlight and acquiring praise from all areas Osborne reminds us that

Let us sincerely hope that the billions of pounds of public funds we are putting at risk today do the job, bring some semblance of calm to the financial markets and start the credit flowing again through the veins of the economy. That shouldn't prevent us from seeing this for what it is: the final, sorry chapter of the Age of Irresponsibility. The moment when Gordon Brown was finally forced to confront the consequences of building a 10-year economic boom on a mountain of debt.

and that

our government could and should have used the good years of global growth to set aside money for a rainy day. That's what many governments did by building up budget surpluses, such as they did in Australia and Sweden; but in Britain, Gordon Brown racked up the biggest budget deficit in the western world.

Starnge tactics indeed???