Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink

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Established in 1985, GCGL provides head office functions including IT, HR and finance services, to various subsidiaries in the construction, facilities management and related industries. Remedies came in the form of the intrusive medical tests, the Work Programme, abolition of the emergency social fund and frozen benefits. We met a junior jobcentre manager, who wished to remain anonymous, in a railway hotel in a Midlands town. “Sanctions are applied for anything at all, just to hit the targets.” Officially the government denied having targets to reduce claimant numbers. “Many don’t know what’s happened until their benefit suddenly stops. Many can hardly read. It’s very easy to hand someone two sheets of A4 and get them to agree to 50 ‘steps’ towards work but they don’t know what a step is, so they’re sanctioned; their claim is shut down and they disappear from the figures.” The state has to be very cautious in using its power to mould cultural values. Comparisons with far-right groups on the day the EDL is mounting a demonstration is needlessly provocative.

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Gove’s dash to create academies and free schools was in tune with the government’s ideology: remove the state and everything would spontaneously arrange itself for the best. But the Department for Education’s own research suggested that left to themselves academies and free schools didn’t necessarily bear out these ideas. Nor were they accountable to anyone – many now operated by mysterious chains of sponsors, which Gove forbade Ofsted from inspecting. Free schools careered along like driverless cars on unmarked roads, and a few duly crashed as their unsupervised management plunged into special measures or closure. Not even the Conservatives had the chutzpah to claim credit for saving the Union but they showed no such hesitancy in other cases, treating failures as acts of God and successes as their own work. The economy exceeded its pre-recession peak but only after years of stagnation, leaving GDP per capita well below its previous level. Writing in the newspaper i, James Hanning, a biographer of Cameron, said "his book displays all the sensitivity and communication skills he showed in office... Cameron is said to have not enjoyed writing this book, but it doesn't feel that way. Despite its demands, he gives every sense of having enjoyed office. Until June 2016, that is." [11]copies of For the Record were sold in its first week on sale, placing it second to Margaret Atwood's The Testaments in the book charts. [10] Reception [ edit ] Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial?

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It’s just possible Duncan Smith never understood what he was doing. Never underestimate Tory ministers’ ignorance of welfare and the lives of poorer people. In 2013, Lord Freud, the employment minister, sniffed at “an almost infinite demand for a free good”, apparently unaware that use of food banks is carefully rationed by vouchers from councils and his own jobcentres. Duncan Smith sneered that the Christian-inspired Trussell Trust was politically motivated, as if its food banks handed out tins of baked beans to shame the government. Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian and former BBC social affairs editor. She won the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1998 and in 2007 was named Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards. She has also written and co-authored many books including her latest, Cameron’s Coup. She tweets @pollytoynbee.