Reblogged from WatchingA4e:
Many people have asked how it can be that Iain Duncan Smith keeps his job. Perhaps the answer lies here,
in a survey of how Tory party members rate the cabinet. As you see,
IDS is top. Overwhelmingly, Tories approve of Smith and what he is
doing. So he can mess up one project after another and it doesn't
matter. He can be astonishingly rude to the select committee (to which
only Labour members bothered to turn up) and it doesn't matter. The
right-wing love him, because he's engaging with the enemy, poor people,
and trouncing them.
But why does the right hate the poor so much?
I've come to the conclusion that what lies behind it is fear.
Consider
the case of Jack Monroe...
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