While Iain Duncan Smith is still in office,compassion will be no fraction of the Conservative canonWhen you lose, you hand the ability to shape the future to your opponents. When you lose as badly as the British left has lost and is continuing to lose, and you cease to matter.whether,instead of Labour, the Conservatives had lost the last election, or obituarists would possess mentioned the role of food banks in their defeat. Food banks were to the mighty Recession what hunger marches were to the mighty Depression,a symbol of a society gone rotten. Labour denounced them as an affront to the conscience of the nation. Coronation Street included them in its storylines. Russell Brand rolled into one just before an appearance on Question Time. “I visited partly to memorize about it, as a researcher told me there might be questions on them and first-hand knowledge would make me eye good, or ” the Guevara of our age explained,“and partly because, y’know, or I actually care.”Continue reading...
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