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Someone should really invent a "blunderometer": a device for measuring the frequency and volume of the stupid and careless mistakes that governments make. If such a device existed, British governments of all parties would have achieved high scores in recent decades. It is too early to say for sure, but the present government might be in contention for racking up the highest score of all.
The cock-up over the introduction of Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms is well known. So is the fiasco of the West Coast Mainline franchise ? awarded, then un-awarded, a year later still to be re-awarded. The help-to-buy scheme risks inflating another house-price bubble. Some ministers, though not all, are fighting to prevent HS2 being shunted into a siding. Only this week Margaret Hodge ? she who must be obeyed ? condemned Iain Duncan Smith's hideously complicated universal credit as having all the hallmarks of an "out-of-control project". Sadly, David Cameron's omnishambolic administration is by no means Britain's first.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/stop-blunders-in-british-politics
The cock-up over the introduction of Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms is well known. So is the fiasco of the West Coast Mainline franchise ? awarded, then un-awarded, a year later still to be re-awarded. The help-to-buy scheme risks inflating another house-price bubble. Some ministers, though not all, are fighting to prevent HS2 being shunted into a siding. Only this week Margaret Hodge ? she who must be obeyed ? condemned Iain Duncan Smith's hideously complicated universal credit as having all the hallmarks of an "out-of-control project". Sadly, David Cameron's omnishambolic administration is by no means Britain's first.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/stop-blunders-in-british-politics