http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20181005-144313-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-conservatives-2015-fiscal-charter-a-wanting-desire-for-constitutional-change/ The Conservatives’ 2015 Fiscal Charter: A Wanting Desire for Constitutional Change Jones, Brian Christopher Sandro, Paolo eng 2015-11-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Budget Surplus Charter for Budget Responsibility Constitutional Change Fiscal Compact George Osborne Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The UK Conservatives’ "Charter for Budget Responsibility" has, with the aid of a number of Labour MPs, passed the House of Commons. The charter's intention is that of committing the current and future Governments into running a permanent budget surplus – a sinister attempt to bind future governments as regards fiscal policy. Its inconsistency with the opposition against the EU Fiscal Compact in 2011/12 exposes, though, how much the Conservative's desire to constitutionalize fiscal surplus policy in the UK is wanting.