Why do I get the feeling that Ian Duncan Smith's role in the Social Justice Policy Group is just the equivalent of David Cameron telling him to go and play on the motorway? And, that The Social Justice Policy Group Report Breakthrough Britain reminds me of the image of the hiker trying to find his way and reading from a map that was upside down? The problem with the positivist approach taken by Ian Duncan Smith is that he starts with an assumption thought up by David Cameron and produces a Report which claims to prove that the assumption is correct. The Report claims that their are five causes of poverty, and yet the World Bank claims that there are at least ten causes of poverty. It would appear that Ian Duncan Smith has only done half a job.
I remember when Margaret Thatcher was in power and it was decided to cut prisoners food budget. Suddenly, the wording in the Prison Rules was changed from a duty to provide rations that were both "adequate in quality and quantity" to a "balanced diet". It transpires that the brainchild for this change in wording, in 1993, was none other than David Cameron when he worked under Michael Howard the then Home Secretary. What beggars belief is that it was Michael Howard's wife who suggested that prisoners should be fed less.
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