IDS hides poverty statistics until after the election – Benefits and Work
Crucial statistics on the effects of the governments welfare reforms will be deliberately delayed until after the election, to prevent academics and campaigners discovering the effects of policies such as the bedroom tax, changes to disability living allowance and employment and support allowance and increased sanctions, according to Benefits and Work.
The Households Below Average Income figures will be two and a half years out of date by the time of the election.
Read the full article here.
Follow me on Twitter: @MidWalesMike
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
If you have enjoyed this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!
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:
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:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
Exactly what I expect of this government.
Those statistics are owned by the UK population, who the hell is IDS to ‘hide them’, he is our servant and should be doing OUR bidding….
I’ve been leading up to something with these articles about ESA and Universal Credit. Wait until you read it…
Another reason why Cameroon the Stupid attempted to con President Obama, he is desperate to get control over the Web:
“The Federal Communications Commission will vote Thursday on a question that will change the Internet for all of us: Should some Americans be allowed to pay extra for faster service, or is Internet access a new American right — equal for all. It’s called net neutrality.
“
‘Bro’ Obama, tossed him away from him as the stench of Cameroon’s corruption was nauseating
No surprise there, then.
Since the govt routinely ignores legally binding FOI requests, why should I be surprised? The truth about the NHS, Education and Welfare would severely damage peoples faith in the Tories, and we can’t have that can we?
Since you’re interested in FoI requests, you’re going to love an article I’ve just published.
We are supposed to see these various requests and publications before the election so that we can see exactly what the “government” have done for the last 5 years. Are we to just go on what the msm has given us or are we supposed to study the reports and publications ourselves so that we can make our own minds up?
He is also refusing to reveal the true cost of the largely failed universal credit until after the election