{"product_id":"9781849011617","title":"Squandered","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver 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?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170845671664,"sku":"9781849011617","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849011617_p0.jpg?v=1763754639","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849011617","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}