Politicians may deal in terminological inexactitudes, but
I can’t think of many black-is-white, war-is-peace practitioners as downright
deceptive as Iain Duncan Smith. Originally, the question was whether to put it
down to simple stupidity, as he didn’t understand that the numbers he promised
were impossible. Yesterday, poring over his big speech on welfare reform, a few
of the more polite experts spoke of his “magical thinking”. But his motives and
state of mind hardly matter to the millions affected by his evidence-free,
faith-based policy-making. His speech was a paean of self-praise. To read it,
no minister has done such good for so many. This was a sublime response to a
battery of critics who include Treasury briefers, the National Audit Office on
the failure of his work programme, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority for
his abuse of figures, and the Major Projects Authority awarding his universal
credit an amber/red warning. Read more on the Guardian website.
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