Jonathan Portes hands in a damning judgement on the failure of Iain Duncan Smith at the DWP, but I am struck by the lack of accountability. Here we have a minister ignoring repeated warnings of inevitable failure, brushing aside clear evidence of totally unobtainable objectives, huge private sector failure and billions of taxpayers' money wasted. Yet no one resigns, or even admits culpability.
The whole ship of state just goes yet further in unnavigable waters, and no one stops it.
At the same time ministers are pilloried for personal indiscretions, gaffes (which sometimes consist of telling the truth) and relatively minor misconduct. Doesn't our whole political system have its priorities wrong?
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