How Long Can Iain Duncan Smith Last

Iain Duncan Smith appears to have got himself in a confrontation with the Trussell Trust.  Iain Duncan Smith is denying the obvious truth that the explosion in the Trust's food bank usage from about 41,000 in 2010 to about half a million now has nothing to do with the government's "reforms".  His junior minister explicitly welcomes the expansion of food banks, and I find it hard not to believe that the pauperisation of large numbers of people is an actual objective of the Tory government.

Adding to that, ministers have presided over the incompetent implementation of the universal credit, whilst simultaneously undermining their own policy with on the go cuts.  

David Cameron will surely have to remove Iain Duncan Smith.  This is not because Mr Duncan Smith is so obviously cruel, stupid and mendacious.  It is because he has become all too successful in conveying the Tory priorities of tax cuts for the rich and food banks for the poor.  The stark unfairness of the government in punishing the most vulnerable is David Cameron's own policy, but Iain Duncan Smith makes it so obvious that he is surely too much of a political liability to continue.