Today's news

Since my time at University I have usually read The Times, which is generally considered to be fairly balanced politically. Today it leads with the tax credits fiasco where under the highly complicated system introduced by Gordon Brown, many families were overpaid collectively almost £6billion. This has led to demands for repayment with some families unable to do and in many cases the sums being written off. On page 4 there is an account of the battle of the Army’s senior staff to prevent civil servants from cutting the number of infantry batallions by a quarter; on page 12 a report that figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that children under the age of ten were the prime suspects in nearly 3,000 crimes last year; and on page 13 details of an internal report on health tourism that the bill for treating foreign patients is now £62 million a year despite a crackdown promised by the Government three years ago.
Pick any one these to show a Government letting it’s people down by failing to take proper control of an issue. We can and will do better.