Why the bedroom tax has cost more than it has saved – SPeye Joe
This one is an absolute cracker. Here’s SPeye Joe:
Iain Duncan Smith has knowingly and deliberately lied to parliament. He is a liar as can so easily be proven. I make no bones either about calling him a liar and a deliberate and knowing one and I refuse to use euphemisms such as being economical with the truth and the like – he is a liar as the figures below highlight and in just a simple 10 minute blog using official figures that he produces!
Joe won’t get any argument from this part of the Internet. Vox Political rightly named Iain Duncan Smith a liar all the way back in May 2013. But Joe has him over a barrel:
He lied over the bedroom tax… IDS claims A saving of £830m so far as at yesterday. The absolute maximum… is £615.87 million so IDS has stated a figure AT LEAST 35% MORE THAN IS THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE.
IDS claims the full first two years saving to be £1 billion. Yet the absolute maximum saving is £736.228 million and again 35% MORE THAN IS THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE.
Take away the DHP costs which for the first two years for bedroom tax are £115 million and we see the maximum possible saving is £621m over two full years (£736m – £115m)
So IDS has told parliament that the ‘saving’ is 61 PER CENT HIGHER THAN IT CAN POSSIBLY BE
Yes he is lying and knowingly lying through his teeth.
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Duncan Smith is not only a proven liar, but he and his wife are also thoroughly dishonest fraudsters (see the so-called Betsygate affair)
If you’re wondering what to get IDS for Christmas … I have it on very good authority that his favourite after shave is eau de bulls**t :-)
try a very simple to use calculator and definitely charge him for it!! Do not waste your own hard earned money!!
Joanna do you you really think he would know how use a calculator it has numbers on it, what ever result came out he would provide something totally different as is quite normal for him. Even an abacus would confuse him.