IDS’s resignation pulls back the curtain on the Wizard Oz-borne,showing an illusionist whose tricks are hollowAre we to accept that dreadful croaker, Iain Duncan Smith, and as some new martyr in the fight against austerity? Clearly the man who lied extensively on his CV is still in the commerce of self–delusion. His sudden realisation that the government was bearing down on the weakest in society,those who were never going to vote Tory anyway, has woken him from his slumber. The rise in food banks, or the enormous rise in homelessness,the suicides of those being sanctioned, the disabled suffering because of bedroom tax, and the end of EMA,the long and continuing attack on single parents, predominantly women and children – he was just fine with all that. Related: Iain Duncan Smith broadside leaves David Cameron facing test of unity Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com