This is the most disorganised and hypocritical government in modern British politics

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I don’t detest Tories, and it’s a dangerous idea to “other” large swathes of citizens who support democratic parties other than one’s own. But I do detest this Tory government. It is a detestable, disorganised hypocrisy. 

All political parties and governments are to some extent hypocrisies. No two people agree on everything important, and parties made up of thousands of elected representatives, and hundreds of thousands of members, necessarily involve ambiguous, compromised and contradictory positions on many issues. 

As an adviser and minister in the Blair/Brown governments for 12 years, I was constantly surprised and sometimes shocked…