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So many to choose from but these are my top 12.
If you think I’ve missed any – feel free to let me know in the comments.
1) Emma Harrison from A4e blamed taxpayers for bullying her into paying herself a dividend of £8.6m from taxpayers’ money despite her firm’s abysmal record for the government’s Work Programme:
Emma Harrison: “Heartless taxpayers bullied me into paying myself £8.6m of their money”
2) The coalition government decided to subsidise massive corporations like McDonald’s and Tesco with taxpayers’ money by allowing them to use unemployed people as slave labour:
Did you know the government is subsidising McDonald’s with taxpayers money – your money?
3) The coalition government finalised its plans for the destruction of the NHS:
Cameron to voters – here’s two pointers why I’m going ahead with NHS privatisation anyway ….
4) There were crisis in supplies of fuel and pasties:
Don’t panic-buy and fill up on pasties, public urged
5) The coalition managed to completely lose the trust of the police:
Angry police seek right to kettle themselves
Andrew Mitchell sacked by PM for splitting an infinitive at police officers
6) The coalition has overseen a massive rise in homelessness this year ( set to get even worse next year):
Massive Solar Storm Causes 14% Jump in Homelessness
7) Cameron and Tory ministers in particular got caught out being led hand in glove by Murdoch and his dodgy cronies:
OFCOM rules Murdoch ‘fit and proper’ to own David Cameron
8) Osborne seriously suggested taxing both pasties and grannies and he might not even have been joking:
Government To Tax Pasties and Grannies
9) The coalition failed to sack George Osborne as chancellor:
UK suffers worst double-dipstick chancellor in 50 years
George Osborne Is Not A Wanker – He’s A Genius!
Police called to George Osborne’s home after reports his lights on but nobody at home.
An APOLOGY to Rt Hon George Osborne MP from Tom Pride
10) G4S caused a security shambles at the Olympics and were rewarded for their incompetence by being made one of the government’s preferred bidders for privatisation of police and other services:
G4S Boss Nick Buckles Admits His Mullet Is `Humiliating Shambles’
Al Qaeda affiliate G4S pins down thousands of UK troops in remote Stratford province
11) Government ministers brought Britain’s criminal justice system to a halt after they were hoodwinked into handing over a £300 million contract for court and police interpreting to a dodgy Delboy character:
Meet ALS – the new G4S (or how Delboy hoodwinked ministers out of £300m)
12) A ‘mix-up’ by government ministers over dates means the UK coast will be left inadequately guarded:
Could this be the coalition government’s biggest cock-up yet?
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syzygysue said:
You forgot ‘BBC executives deny claims of NHS abuse by government ministers were open secret’ with the multilayered conclusion:
‘There is so much talk about rumours, but I can tell you that neither from external sources or internally, neither by nods and winks or by innuendo, did I receive any scintilla whatsoever that the NHS and the disabled were being abused in this way by government ministers. In fact I can categorically state that until a few days ago, I had never even heard of the NHS. Is that where poor people go to get cured?’
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syzygysue said:
OK .. the coalition and the BBC wouldn’t think that they’ve ‘cocked-up’ but the rest of us ‘will’ given enough time.
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Cindy said:
Definately a good list. Think all avenues covered. Cant wait to see next years list, thats if they survive the coming year. Hoping NOT of course!
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Tam Hunter said:
If you were to list all the faults we would be here all year reading them.
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Kelly said:
Just wondering how you selected just 12? Did you have to whittle down the list from the hundreds on offer? They are vile.
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JacWilliams said:
How about IDS? Nothing more to say, he’s just one big cock up
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Tom Pride said:
Glad you noticed what a hard job I had.
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Tom Pride said:
Nothing IDS does is a cock-up. It’s all perfectly deliberate.
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Steve said:
My favourite IDS moment is still his first speech of this parliament in which he used the line “work makes you free” or, “arbeit macht frei” as it appears over the gates of Auschwitz.
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Skywatch said:
You could have included the scrapping of Nimrod Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
Ending this project ended many UK workers jobs and within weeks the UK had to call on NATO to track a Russian submarine in UK costal waters as we no longer had the capcbility to do so. Since then we have no capability to monitor our own waters.
Luckily though, we have given India enough money to buy new planes by the bucket load. Trouble is, they aren’t much use to us in a crisis!….
I wouldn’t mind betting that in 2013 we will cough up for American made planes to fill the gap.
Unfortunately, those American workers won’t be paying UK tax, spending in UK shops or paying NI contributions.
Well done CONdem!
Skywatch
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carolineemma said:
Reblogged this on lifelovelanguage.
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fergus macphail said:
Westcoast rail line
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Tom Pride said:
You’re right. I should have included that one.
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fuckthetories said:
You forgot this very aptly named cock-up Tom. Happy new year. x
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/comment/camerons-christmas-cock-up-on-porn-blocking-102475
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Tom Pride said:
That’s actually a massive cock-up.
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Lenny said:
Sanction thousands of job seekers for months on end leaving then destitute, cut vital services, bail out corrupt banks, cut welfare, freeze public sector wages and generally screw everyone over then sit back at take a 11% pay rise … Then tell everyone that Britain is on the road to recovery. Who the hell are they kidding! I’ll be voting YES for Scottish independence. Being independent would create thousands of jobs rebuilding Hadrian’s Wall, only this time much higher.
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Lenny said:
You do realise that Cameron and his sidekick Gleg tell the BBC what to say and not to say …. They are all in each others’ pockets.
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