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They are, it must be said, the nearest thing to a mainstream party that will actually protect the NHS. I can’t say I wholly agree with every policy they have, but I’ve damn near joined them several times recently; and I think it’s the only party who’s posters I’ve ever not merely spent money on but actually displayed in the run up to an election.
“He’s floating so high on his self-appointed sanctity”: Glenda Jackson laying in to Iain Duncan Smith (via New Statesmen)
‘We are looking at a welfare state which was created to protect people from actually falling through the cracks. What this particular secretary of state; what this particular department is doing is pushing people through those cracks and hoping that the rest of the country won’t notice that they’ve disappeared.’