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Hopeless Romantic Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 04:52 AM
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Frank Field given role as poverty czar by Cameron
FRANK FIELD, the senior Labour backbencher, has been given a role in the new coalition government leading a review into tackling poverty.

The former welfare minister who became a fierce critic of his party’s immigration policy, will become a “poverty czar” under David Cameron.

In another surprise appointment, the prime minister has asked the left-wing commentator Will Hutton to lead the drive to cut public sector pay. He has been charged with drawing up a new pay system for civil servants.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7127917.ece


I'm beginning to quite like this government!
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fedsron2us Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 05:13 AM
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1. He will have plenty of work
Edited on Sun May-16-10 05:14 AM by fedsron2us
since I expect a lot of people are going to be a lot poorer before this government is finished.
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Hopeless Romantic Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 05:16 AM
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2. Maybe, but credit where it's due...
So far there has been nothing but good things imo.


Probably softening us up for a good stuffing later :(
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 05:37 AM
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3. Like I said, I'm long enough in the tooth ...
... to remember both Thatcher and Blair's Honeymoon periods.

I'll keep my powder dry a little longer, I think.

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fedsron2us Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 05:42 AM
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4. He will think the unthinkable then be sacked.
Edited on Sun May-16-10 05:43 AM by fedsron2us
This is just window dressing for benefit cuts.

We have been down this road before.

Workfare for benefits is a fine old British tradition going back to the WorkHouse.

Under Thatcher YOPS attempted something similar but was really not much more than a modern version of picking oakham or crushing bones for glue.

The problem with introducinmg these types of scheme during a thumping recession is that there are no real jobs out there for the unemployed to do.

It is just a means of punishing the poor for their poverty so that the rest of us can feel morally superior.

I would prefer the High Tory paternalism of the Speenhamland system to Fields Neo Liberal utilitarian bollocks.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 06:09 AM
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5. I fully agree
Edited on Sun May-16-10 06:10 AM by LeftishBrit
Never could stand Frank Field. I'm not surprised that he is now working for a Tory prime minister!
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 09:55 AM
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6. Indeed. I think his Victorian Utilitarianist views will sit just fine ...
... with those of the new regime.

Will Hutton I rather like, though, in spite of his Blairite links. Will be less happy seeing him shafted by the Cleggerons.

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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 11:09 AM
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7. I'd call Hutton 'centrist' rather than 'left wing' anyway
I'd say he's a fair fit for the coalition.

"The Cleggerons"? As in "This is the Voice of the Cleggerons. We know that you can hear us, Earthmen"?
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 11:42 AM
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8. Ah, but are the Cleggerons on the starboard bow of the Spaceship of State ...
... or do they list to port? :evilgrin:

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