In praise of the quiet man
Francis Sedgemore, Tuesday 21 February 2012 at 11:57 UTC
What’s with all the fuss over workfare? So unseemly, this harping, middle-class job snobbery.
UK work and pensions secretary Ian Duncan Smith has dismissed the critics as a “commenting elite” with an “unjustified sense of superiority”. And he should know. The political trailblazer known simply as “IDS” is living proof that being one of life’s serial failures, completely and utterly useless at everything one does, and doesn’t, is no impediment to individual and social advancement. Willingness, dedication and the right attitude are everything.
Go IDS!
Feed the writer! 
Tuesday 21 February 2012 at 15:47 UTC
I find it amazing that Cameron would have either him or Hague in cabinet given Hague’s stunning lack of victory in 200 and the fact that IDS was so utterly shit they had to replace him with Michale Howard… Now that says a lot about the quality of IDS
Tuesday 21 February 2012 at 15:55 UTC
To be fair on Hague, he may be a Tory, but h is pretty good at his job as foreign secretary. Hague knows his brief, and, like his predecessor (Miliband Major), he has the balance right between diplomacy and politics.