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!

since I expect a lot of people are going to be a lot poorer before this government is finished.

So far there has been nothing but good things imo.


Probably softening us up for a good stuffing later :(

... to remember both Thatcher and Blair's Honeymoon periods.

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

The Skin

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.

Never could stand Frank Field. I'm not surprised that he is now working for a Tory prime minister!

... 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.

The Skin

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"?

... or do they list to port? :evilgrin:

The Skin