Two former Prime Ministers attack Osborne on tax credit poverty

[Ironing Man]

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well, ill-thought out and ultimately dropped policy is hardly a new phenomenon in the government of the 'born to lead' is it!

forestry commision sell off, child benefit (part 1), SDSR 2010, changing carriers and aircraft and then changing them back... for a government of so few smokers, they seem to spend a lot of time scrawling on the back of fag packets...

i might have seen it here, but i'd agree with the idea that theres a lot of policy that looks like its been made on the hoof - perhaps it was initially created to be hollow coalition fodder, 'reluctantly' cast aside in favour of something more limited that was actually what was wanted in the first place, and now they are stuck with it.

agree with your view that this was very much not discussed during the election, so that might blow a hole in my theory....