Squandered: How Gordon Brown Is Wasting Over One Trillion Pounds of Our Money. David Craig

Squandered: How Gordon Brown Is Wasting Over One Trillion Pounds of Our Money. David Craig

by Craig (Author)

Synopsis

Over the last ten years, New Labour has boosted public spending by around a trillion pounds - that's GBP1,000,000,000,000 of our taxes - over GBP50,000 for every household in Britain. But what have we got for our money? Effective and responsive public services that are the envy of the world? Or the creation of a vast, self-serving bureaucracy that has presided over the greatest waste of money in British history? With so much money, a tsunami of extra cash, being thrown at public services - health, education, policing, defence, social services and public administration - there have been some successes. Nevertheless, the results of the Government's tidal wave of extra spending have been worse than pitiful. In department after department, it is the same sorry story - a triple whammy of incompetence, cover-up and cuts that have all but decimated public services, while those responsible have lavished money and honours on themselves. David Craig exposes the sometimes tragic, sometimes comic story of how New Labour's years of mismanagement have led to a bureaucratization of Britain that has squandered almost unimaginable amounts of taxpayers' money, caused irreparable damage to all our lives and rewarded the man responsible with the keys to Number 10.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Publisher: Constable
Published: 07 Apr 2008

ISBN 10: 1845298322
ISBN 13: 9781845298326
Book Overview: How New Labour are wasting over one trillion pounds of our money.

Media Reviews
A gripping and important book, one that is impossible to read without becoming angry. * New Statesman *
David Craig's chilling audit of government spending for the last 10 days - a book much more readable and entertaining than it sounds...a genuinely important book. It is no exaggeration to say that if the right people read it, take it seriously, and take appropriate action, this book could not only save the taxpayer billions, it could save lives....This is a terrifying book, but a brilliant and necessary one. Please read it. * The Daily Telegraph *
Read it I beg you! * Business Money *
Author Bio
David Craig has been a consultant for twenty years, working for and competing against some of the world's best and worst management consultants. His books Plundering the Public Sector and Rip-off!: The scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine have both been bestsellers. Richard Brooks spent fifteen years as a Career Civil Servant before joining Private Eye as a journalist.