Cameron's Coup: How the Tories took Britain to the Brink

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Don't mistake Cameron for a bland PR man. Despite coalition compromises, he's turning out to be more radical than Margaret Thatcher. She privatised industries. His plan is to dismantle the welfare state itself. The NHS is being marketised to death. The cuts are cover for an assault on the post-war social settlement. Children, young people, the poor, legal aid, police and probation officers, social housing are bearing the brunt of the Cameron revolution. Will it succeed? Writing with their trademark incisiveness and wit, Toynbee and Walker tell the story of how in four short years a party that failed to win a Commons majority has been devastatingly effective. Blending analysis and numbers with moving human stories from Sydenham to Sheffield, Cameron's Coup argues that the government is creating a harsher, meaner Britain. Toynbee and Walker say that voters must ask the pressing question of 2015 - are these changes irrevocable?

Polly Toynbee and David Walker have co-authored Dogma and Disarray: Cameron at Half-Time, Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today, The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain? and Better or Worse: Did Labour Deliver? Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian. David Walker is a contributing editor to the Guardian Public and former director of public reporting at the Audit Commission.