So: what will Cameron's Legacy Be?

I think Cameron's legacy should be as the PM who destroyed the NHS.

He said it would be safe in his nands, then brought in the most top-down reorganisation in history.
Here is another reorganisation in the form of Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
improvement.nhs.uk/uploads/documents/Final_Bus_Plan_16-17_13july.pdf

The idea behind them is
“to facilitate independent sector providers to form NHS partnerships.”
in other words, to allow private healthcare companies to take over the NHS.
There are two petitions to stop this happening, but they will not work. However, it's worth signing them to show how much opposition there is to the privatisation of the NHS.

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but apart from all the other things about him which put me off him,I don't think he's all that bright. He had been coached in a very effective style of public speaking which masked this.
This led him to commit to the referendum, showing complete lack of foresight of possible consequences.

It was a PR exercise to him, TriciaF.

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5 NHS trusts and 9 CCGs put into special measures last month.
Is yours one of them?
It just proves they are stripping the NHS ready for full scale privatisation. Cameron's real legacy.

dj - they will get what they want unless we have a Labour Government next time round to stop it.

Not bright enough for his handlers to trust him in a head to head TV debate with Miliband - who is a great deal brighter I think. TriciaF

Maybe the PM who lied the most to the electorate?
Starting with things like
Greenest government ever
No top-down reorganisation of NHS
NHS safe in his hands
etc etc etc

All in this together!

We care about "hard working families" - presumably the ones who never lose their jobs and never need to claim housing benefits or tax credits?

To be absolutely accurate, I'm pretty sure that it was Gordon Brown who coined the phrase about 'hard working families'.
The one that stands out for me is, 'We're all in it together'!! Blatantly untrue and I think, the most stupid comment I've ever heard!

Yes, I think it was Gordon Brown who coined the phrase but it wasn't meant to be used quite so unthinkingly. Afaik, it was in relation to Tax Credits, which he introduced to top up working families' low pay.

Nowadays if you dare to be disabled, redundant, ill, old or otherwise "unable to make a contribution" you're written off as a freeloader.

Gordon Brown didn't introduce top ups to working families' low pay. Family Credit had existed from the 1970s to top up families with low pay. It was the Conservative Chancellors before 1997 who first suggested and worked on the details of the concept of Working Tax Credit, which Gordon Brown implemented.

www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn3.pdf

Sorry, but it's something which really bugs me. People don't seem to be able to mention tax credits without mentioning Gordon Brown in the same breath.

I stand corrected, daphne. Sorry for any offence.

Worsening of the housing crisis?

speye.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/uk-housing-crisis-thatchers-rtb-and-ha-insignificance/

Last year housing associations built LESS housing for social rent than they have ever done in any year since the second world war or perhaps ever!

speye.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-overall-benefit-cap-a-means-test-for-social-housing-and-child-abuse/

Did anyone watch Dispatches this week, about the amount of land that the Ministry of Defence has sold off for housing which has not been built? It's worth watching.

www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/on-demand/64584-001

Cameron said his legacy would be 100,000 houses built, but so far it's been sold off for half its value. and less than half the number of houses have been built.
Some land was bought and hotels built on it instead of affordable homes.
3 million people on council waiting lists.

durhamjen I always watch dispatches, and I can honestly say that this was the first time that I've switched channels: i just couldn't watch anymore of what has been happening. I am incensed over this waste/ corruption etc.

So we need to try and do something about it.
Switching channels is not good enough.
I wonder if weownit will try to do something. I'd be surprised if 38 degrees wasn't on to it, as well.

I just couldn't listen to anymore knowing that absolutely nothing will change.
Once again it's taxpayers money so it doesn't matter. I did get over half way through it.
The part where I gave up was when the foreign chap was going to buy a station and more or less given an interest free loan from our government.

Did you watch long enough to see the connections with Tim Laurence, husband of Princess Anne?

Theresa May should come to the rescue. One of her big things in her speech was about housing, and how impossible it is for youngsters to get somewhere decenht to live.

No I didn't see that. Is it more of who you know? Will watch the link to the end.
I know you and I disagree on a lot of things but you have no idear how angry this makes me.

I realise it must make you very angry if you are agreeing with me.

thexrayfactor.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/toxic-legacy-the-decline-and-fall-of-rex-cameron/

Such a big choice.

Could this be another reason Cameron left, hoping his lies would not be discovered?

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/23/david-cameron-adviser-craig-oliver-no-10-alarm-holding-offshore-fund-cayman-islands

Could this be Cameron's legacy?

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/26/hammond-80bn-black-hole-economic-worsens-brexit-treasury

Along with pal Osborne, of course.
No wonder they wanted out.

Cameron's main legacy will be holding the referendum which has resulted in us leaving the EU. This will be the biggest issue for many years.
Dismantling the welfare state will seem minor in comparison to Brexit, I believe.