Hope, whilst IDS Lies continue to Persecute the Poor – Jayne Linney

Last Updated: December 25, 2014By
It would have been the height of bad manners to put you all off your Christmas dinners with an image of the Fuhrer of the DWP, therefore we've kindly blurred his face so you don't have to look at it. Merry Christmas!

It would have been the height of bad manners to put you all off your Christmas dinners with an image of the Fuhrer of the DWP, therefore we’ve kindly blurred his face so you don’t have to look at it. Merry Christmas!

In this my last post before the festivities I want to take a look at a quick overview of the Truth Campaign and our reasons for pursuing it, wrote Jayne Linney (and VP apologises for failing to put it up until now).

It all began on April 14 2013, when Debbie Sayers and I wrote an open letter, to Esther McVey regarding her persistent misuse of facts and statistics, we sent this with over 800 signatures, including 4 MPs, a month later. On the back of this, we started our first petition (27/5/13) to the Work & Pensions Committee demanding they :Hold IDS to account for his use of statistics.

We eventually received a response from the DWP correspondence team to our letter, which failed to even acknowledge the questions we had asked, but she did reply to Michael Meacher and Tim Loughton MPs, who had supported our letter with the same reply.

By June 12 our first petition had hit the magic 100,000 signatures, and between then and November, we played tag with IDS as he kept hiding from the Select Committee.

Did they pin him down? Read on, over at Jayne’s own site.

Follow me on Twitter: @MidWalesMike

Join the Vox Political Facebook page.

Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(
but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:

Donate Button with Credit Cards

Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
bringing you the best of the blogs.

Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:

HWG PrintHWG eBook

The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:

SWAHTprint SWAHTeBook

6 Comments

  1. cnhay December 25, 2014 at 1:14 pm - Reply

    Mike wish you a very merry Christmas and happy new year and may all your wishes come true for 2015 keep the good work up thanks for the enlightenment during the past years.

    • Mike Sivier December 25, 2014 at 1:27 pm - Reply

      Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you to.

  2. Jim Round December 25, 2014 at 2:11 pm - Reply

    http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/in-praise-of-iain-duncan-smith.html
    Remember, never trust most politicians, they are just on one major ego trip.
    Merry Christmas to you and Mrs Mike.
    Looking forward to more quality Vox in 2015

  3. concernedkev December 25, 2014 at 5:33 pm - Reply

    Happy Christmas and a victorious New Year

  4. jaynel62 December 26, 2014 at 7:44 am - Reply

    No apologies needed Mike, thanks as always and ALL Festive greetings to you & Mrs Mike; ENJOY and Relax for the scrap of our lives in 2015 xxx

  5. Landless Peasant December 26, 2014 at 1:23 pm - Reply

    I’d like to blur his face…

Leave A Comment