After a week free of blogging due to manic activity getting ready for the hugely successful London Labour Housing Group Policy Conference on Saturday, that all-too-common feeling of outrage descended on me again this morning whilst watching a BBC News 24 report on the start of the total benefits cap in 4 London boroughs.
I love the BBC but sometimes it is just crap.
So, they tell us with no
hint of contradiction that the £500 cap is the same as the average
worker receives; it affects 40,000 households, and over 8,000 people
have already taken up work ‘because of the cap’.
Minister John Hoban
then trots out the same guff in interview without a hint of
contradiction.
So let’s be clear. All of the ‘facts’ that the BBC dutifully reported
are, at best, controversial and, at worst, downright misleading...
More -
https://redbrickblog.co.uk/2013/04/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-iain-duncan-smith/
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