The humiliating post-premiership of David Cameron is the gift that keeps on giving. He might have been gone from No. 10 for more than eight years, but pretty much everything involving him that’s happened in British national life since his departure has been a reminder of the awful emptiness of his time in office.
At most, the Big Society was a woolly phrase – and the NCS
The list of Cameron embarrassments is as long as the list of his accomplishments is short. There was Dave’s time as a spiv lobbyist, failing to charm former colleagues in government for Lex Greensill. There was a cameo appearance as foreign secretary, a spell distinguished by precisely zero foreign policy successes. He’s even failed at being idle: fellow members of his posh golf club are annoyed at his charmless conduct on the links.
Now we learn that the National Citizens’ Service (NCS) is being abolished, as the government – sensibly – rethinks wider support for young people who face dreadful rates of mental health problems and related economic inactivity. This
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