Squandered: How Gordon Brown is Wasting Over One Trillion Pounds of Our Money

Craig, David

ISBN 10: 1845298322 / ISBN 13: 9781845298326

Published by Constable & Robinson Ltd., London, 2008

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Lightly cocked book. Softcover is sound with creases along spine. Significant pencil underlining throughout text. T.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Squandered: How Gordon Brown is Wasting Over One Trillion Pounds of Our Money
• Publisher: Constable & Robinson Ltd., London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845298322
• ISBN 13: 9781845298326
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics

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Synopsis

Over the last ten years, New Labour has boosted public spending by around a trillion pounds - that's £1,000,000,000,000 of our taxes - over £50,000 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.

About the Author

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.

He also writes novels, notably the Brade and Jenkins series, as well the Harpur and Iles series under the name of Bill James for Macmillan.