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A real eye opener This is one of those books that I thought at first would be another boring book about politics written by another dry academic. It couldn't have been further from the truth. Daniel Craig has a very readable, at times witty style of writing, but over all that are the incontrovertable truths on almost every page. A picture emerges of a government marked mainly by its totally inept management of the economy and its inability to use the tax-payers money other than on grandiose schemes with no other hidden... more info
Good points but please don't quote the Dail Mail! As a long time NHS employee, first as a nurse then latterly as a manager, I've seen first hand how billions have been pumped into health, the ranks of bureaucrats have swelled enormously and efficiency and quality have nose dived. As far as the NHS goes, everything in this book is spot on and I suspect that if you picked teachers, soldiers and policemen at random they would agree that the same has happened in their field. The only issue I would raise however is in how the book is referenced. I'm not sure... more info
Read and vote You must read this book before you vote in the next General Election. You'll read how it's rich bureaucrats that have done best under Labour, not the poor. You'll read how taxes have shot up to be invested in incompetently run and non-delivering public services. You'll read how ineptly this country has been run since 1997, and the scale of waste, bad decisions and dishonesty.
Craig's tone is not ranty. He gives a good deal of evidence for all the statements he makes, he doesn't slide into personal... more info
Squandered David Craig assembles data that, when assessed across the total New Labour period, points not just to outrageous incompetence, but to structural problems in how the country is run that suggest that the UK government simply cannot deliver its leadership role. The book is an indictment of New Labour but it also shows how the Tories and the civil service contributed to what is now an economy in free fall. David Craig's figures speak for themselves. The message is clear. more and more of our money is being... more info
