The sad thing is that many of them actually do want to help. This is them helping.
Andrew Lansley is genuinely passionate about the NHS. A “greedy tosser” he isn't, though there are plenty of other words that could be inserted into the NHS rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1jPqqTdNo) instead to reflect perhaps his naivety and his unshakable faith in the healing powers of the private sector.
Grant Shapps at housing is working hard to improve (and gets very angry about the lack of) provision for homelessness, although this might just be because he has seen the housing projections for the next couple of years and is keen to engage in pre-emptive defensive manoeuvres.
Liam Fox still firmly believes in the hawkish shadow foreign policy he was running at Defence (and don’t write him off yet; he’s still the darling of the Right and we may yet see him back in the spotlight, though whether as PM in 10 years’ time or arrested for leading a group of mercenaries in an attempted coup in Côte d’Ivoire I wouldn’t care to speculate).
Even Iain Duncan Smith at the disability-denying DWP likes to think that he’s practising a brand of muscular Christianity, meaning that he comes across as an unholy blend of Jesus and Norman Tebbit: “Take up thy bed and look for work”.
Cameron may be no zealot (witness his recent unconvincing Christian shtick), but his ministers’ unswerving convictions actually make them more dangerous than cynics.
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Date: 2011-12-20 05:49 pm (UTC)Andrew Lansley is genuinely passionate about the NHS. A “greedy tosser” he isn't, though there are plenty of other words that could be inserted into the NHS rap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl1jPqqTdNo) instead to reflect perhaps his naivety and his unshakable faith in the healing powers of the private sector.
Grant Shapps at housing is working hard to improve (and gets very angry about the lack of) provision for homelessness, although this might just be because he has seen the housing projections for the next couple of years and is keen to engage in pre-emptive defensive manoeuvres.
Liam Fox still firmly believes in the hawkish shadow foreign policy he was running at Defence (and don’t write him off yet; he’s still the darling of the Right and we may yet see him back in the spotlight, though whether as PM in 10 years’ time or arrested for leading a group of mercenaries in an attempted coup in Côte d’Ivoire I wouldn’t care to speculate).
Even Iain Duncan Smith at the disability-denying DWP likes to think that he’s practising a brand of muscular Christianity, meaning that he comes across as an unholy blend of Jesus and Norman Tebbit: “Take up thy bed and look for work”.
Cameron may be no zealot (witness his recent unconvincing Christian shtick), but his ministers’ unswerving convictions actually make them more dangerous than cynics.