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Waiting for the grander vision to emerge
A double whammy of crass Toryism hits today. First, the shameful news that Welsh Secretary David Jones was more interested in catching out ex-soldier Chris Caruana than hearing about the human price of the hated bedroom tax from one of the people it affects.
It reflects the fantasy-land bubble in which politicians such as the Clwyd West MP exist that his first response in a face-to-face meeting with one of his government’s victims was to challenge them on their party affiliation.
For Jones scoring political points might be the most important thing but in the real world it is the desperate scramble to scrape together enough cash to eat and pay the bills that occupies the mind.
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