On Wednesday Ed Miliband
talked about the
"omnishambles" the Tory-led Government has presided over during the last
month – and then later that afternoon we discovered that Home Secretary
Theresa May doesn't even know what day it is.
In a stunning display of incompetence, it turned out that the deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan was being delayed because his lawyers argued that Theresa May had got the date wrong, and Qatada still had a right to appeal.
This mess isn’t the first example of the Tory-led Government’s incompetence. We’ve already seen:
* The shambolic provocation of an unnecessary fuel crisis, with motorists advised to keep petrol in jerry cans;
* An NHS reorganisation which is costing billions and creating new levels of bureaucracy while nurses are cut and waiting times go up;
* A 20% cut to the police budget which the Tories thought wouldn’t affect the frontline, but which is causing the loss of 16,000 police officers;
* A call for charities to build the Big Society undermined by a “Charity Tax” which could cut donations to charities by hundreds of millions of pounds;
* And a millionaires’ Budget which is still falling apart a month after it was published.
It turns out that David Cameron's problem isn't just that he’s out of touch - he isn't even very good at his job.
In a stunning display of incompetence, it turned out that the deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan was being delayed because his lawyers argued that Theresa May had got the date wrong, and Qatada still had a right to appeal.
This mess isn’t the first example of the Tory-led Government’s incompetence. We’ve already seen:
* The shambolic provocation of an unnecessary fuel crisis, with motorists advised to keep petrol in jerry cans;
* An NHS reorganisation which is costing billions and creating new levels of bureaucracy while nurses are cut and waiting times go up;
* A 20% cut to the police budget which the Tories thought wouldn’t affect the frontline, but which is causing the loss of 16,000 police officers;
* A call for charities to build the Big Society undermined by a “Charity Tax” which could cut donations to charities by hundreds of millions of pounds;
* And a millionaires’ Budget which is still falling apart a month after it was published.
It turns out that David Cameron's problem isn't just that he’s out of touch - he isn't even very good at his job.
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