Osborne "shocked" at wealth of rich people

The Chancellor George Osborne today expressed his surprise at revelations that rich people have more money than poor people.

"I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have substantially more money than some of the very poorest" said the two-time winner of the Eton prize for boy least likely to do sums correctly. "Having seen some tax returns and seeing how little these people paid in income tax, I naturally assumed that they were extremely poor" he said in an interview with the Telegraph.

Osborne also expressed surprise about other things in the interview, such as the Pope's stated religion and what it is that bears do in the woods. "They're actually shitting in there?", he said. "Get outta here".