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    Children's Minister doesn't know how much child benefit is when put on the spot by Nick Ferrari
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    Children’s Minister doesn’t know how much child benefit is when put on the spot by Nick Ferrari

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    1. LSL3587 on

      I don’t know what else the Tories can do to help Labour win. Clearly they think it’s Labour’s turn in office.

    2. boycecodd on

      Very silly. When you’re on the media round, it’s practically tradition for interviewers to throw out “gotcha” questions about the topics that have been in the news, so if Child Benefit has been in the news (as it has been) you should make an effort to brief yourself on it, even if your ministerial responsibility isn’t directly related to it. In this case though, I’d say it is.

    3. peakedtooearly on

      The Conservatives post 2018 appear to be a shambolic bunch of chancers.

      Which explains the last decade or so.

    4. ashyjay on

      Looking at the polls he’ll be out of the job soon enough. and surprisingly he’s even worse than Ed Vaizey who he replaced.

    6. pajamakitten on

      Why would he care? He probably thinks there should be none to begin with.

    7. afungalmirror on

      Does he have to? Presumably there are other people in his department who work out the details.

    8. Cielo11 on

      His job is to reduce the Departments spending to make room for cuts. Like all Cabinet Minsters since 2010.

      They don’t give a shit about running the country well. Their Libertarian boners are to reduce the Governments outgoings to Social Welfare and then reduce tax.

      Now look at what 14 years of that gets you… Has tax been reduced? No. Are all public service departments on their knees and costing more to run as a result? Yes.

    9. benerophon on

      “you’re right, I should have found out before I came on here” – no, you should have found out as part of your job, but it’s shear incompetence to not at least have it in your notes before going on a radio interview.

    10. Specific_Till_6870 on

      I think someone had a laugh on his Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Johnston_(British_politician)

    11. thatsgossip on

      why is the fact it isn’t his department an excuse? he is still responsible for child welfare and education, and child benefit is a huge influence on that. if he actually cared about the role and duties it includes that is information he should have known from day one. it’s so fucking weird we just cycle ministers around positions when they have no care or interest in the cause at all.

    12. Quiz44 on

      beacuse they dont care about their job. they’re there to get a paycheck and the benefits that come with them being an MP. expensing everything a normal person is supposed to pay.