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Squandered
David Craig
Constable
Paperback
B format, 320 pp
Published 7th Apr 2008
ISBN: 9781845298326
Markets: World English Language
RRP
£8.99
Paperback
B format, 320 pp
Published 7th Apr 2008
ISBN: 9781845298326
Markets: World English Language
RRP
£8.99
How New Labour are wasting over one trillion pounds of our money.
Over the last ten years, New Labour has boosted public spending by around a trillion pounds – that’s £1,000,000,000,000 of our taxes – over £50,000 for every household in Britain. But what have we got for our money? Effective and responsive public services that are the envy of the world? Or the creation of a vast, self-serving bureaucracy that has presided over the greatest waste of money in British history?With so much money, a tsunami of extra cash, being thrown at public services – health, education, policing, defence, social services and public administration – there have been some successes. Nevertheless, the results of the Government’s tidal wave of extra spending have been worse than pitiful.
In department after department, it is the same sorry story – a triple whammy of incompetence, cover-up and cuts that have all but decimated public services, while those responsible have lavished money and honours on themselves.
David Craig exposes the sometimes tragic, sometimes comic story of how New Labour’s years of mismanagement have led to a bureaucratization of Britain that has squandered almost unimaginable amounts of taxpayers’ money, caused irreparable damage to all our lives and rewarded the man responsible with the keys to Number 10.
