Monday, December 31, 2012

The 12 Biggest Coalition Cockups of 2012 [Pride's Purge]

So many to choose from but these are my top 12.

If you think I’ve missed any – feel free to let me know in the comments.

1) Emma Harrison from A4e blamed taxpayers for bullying her into paying herself a dividend of £8.6m from taxpayers’ money despite her firm’s abysmal record for the government’s Work Programme:

2) The coalition government decided to subsidise massive corporations like McDonald’s and Tesco with taxpayers’ money by allowing them to use unemployed people as slave labour:

3) The coalition government finalised its plans for the destruction of the NHS:

4) There were crisis in supplies of fuel and pasties:

5) The coalition managed to completely lose the trust of the police:

6) The coalition has overseen a massive rise in homelessness this year ( set to get even worse next year):

7) Cameron and Tory ministers in particular got caught out being led hand in glove by Murdoch and his dodgy cronies:

8) Osborne seriously suggested taxing both pasties and grannies and he might not even have been joking:

9) The coalition failed to sack George Osborne as chancellor:

10) G4S caused a security shambles at the Olympics and were rewarded for their incompetence by being made one of the government’s preferred bidders for privatisation of police and other services:

11) Government ministers brought Britain’s criminal justice system to a halt after they were hoodwinked into handing over a £300 million contract for court and police interpreting to a dodgy Delboy character:

12) A ‘mix-up’ by government ministers over dates means the UK coast will be left inadequately guarded: