After declaring he was to ban the use of CCTV for parking enforcement, Eric Pickles has now quietly dropped the idea as people told him it was unpopular. I thought it was also seriously unworkable and illogical. It is not the first time Eric Pickles has tried to grab headlines only to retreat ignominiously. Remember the weekly bin collection debacle?
This latest display of inept policy making follows the ongoing car crash of Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Credit failure.
By the way, does anyone believe George Osborne's suggestion that he will merge national insurance and income tax after witnessing the abject failure of Duncan Smith to get any kind of grip on the benefits system?
I get the impression that government ministers don't even care if their proposals are credible. That is one way in which the present government is even worse than Thatcher. At least she believed that where the government was doing something, it should do it competently.
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