George Osborne to announce re-hash of various failed labour policies in Autumn Statement

1. He'll mention his 'credit easing' scheme, which was "Named in a Tory party manifesto before the last election the National Loan Guarantee Scheme is similar to the previous Labour government's credit guarantee scheme set up by Alistair Darling in the wake of the credit crunch".

2. He might mention more quantitative easing as well, which was something which started under Labour. At the time, Osborne had this to say:

"The very fact that the Treasury is speculating about printing money shows that Gordon Brown has led Britain to the brink of bankruptcy. Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed. It can't be ruled out as a last resort in the fight against deflation, but in the end printing money risks losing control of inflation and all the economic problems that high inflation brings."

3. He announced a scheme to 'help first time buyers onto the property ladder' last week which was more or less word for word a re-hash of something Labour announced two years ago.

4. And then there's the £1 billion Youth Contract:

The decision to use wage subsidies to boost employment is something of a U-turn for the coalition, which quickly scrapped £1.3bn of similar payments, instigated by the Labour party, when it came to power.

5. The council tax freeze, paid for by hiking taxes on everything else seems to common ground between all the main parties as well (it's basic Home-Owner-Ism).

6. The only wizard wheeze which the Tories actually dreamed up for themselves seems to have failed most gloriously:

There could be a revision to a £5,000 per firm national insurance break for any business started outside London or the south-east. The Treasury predicted that 400,000 businesses would benefit, but it is understood only a handful gained.