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Covid-19 fatalities: Are the Tories trying to confuse us to death?

August 1, 2020 Mike SivierConservative, coronavirus, COVID-19, dead, death, die, figure, government, Mike Sivier, number, political, statistic, Tories, Tory, Vox4 Comments

Perhaps readers of Vox Political can help me with this: According to an article in the Mirror on July 31, the number of Covid-19 deaths in hospitals rose by 13, bringing the total to 33,945. This is just deaths in hospital, I’m assuming, as the most recent figures I had seen were nearly double as many. Right? But the article does not provide any UK-wide figure at all. Why not? I turned to the National Audit Office for help. Its most recent figures ran only as far as July 17 – and…

Statistics supremo slams misleading Tory Covid-19 test figures

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 Mike Sivierauthority, coronavirus, COVID-19, David, false, figure, Kingdom, letter, Mike Sivier, Norgrove, political, Sir, statistic, test, trace, UK, united, Vox, Vox Political5 Comments

Next time you watch a news report showing Tory statistics on the number of Covid-19 tests published out per day, bear in mind that the numbers are deliberately wrong – and that comes from the highest authority in the United Kingdom. The Tories are hiding the facts about Covid-19 testing by blurring their definition of test, in order to maximise the number of tests they can report. This comes from Sir David Norgrove, chair of the UK Statistics Authority. This Writer has corresponded with the UKSA on several previous occasions…

Coronavirus: UK government death figures are FALSE

March 31, 2020 Mike SivierConservative, coronavirus, COVID-19, dead, death, die, false, falsify, figure, lie, Mike Sivier, political, statistic, Tories, Tory, Vox, Vox Political14 Comments

The Tory government has been providing false death figures since the start of the coronavirus crisis, according to the Office for National Statistics. ONS figures released today (March 31) show that the government has been ignoring any deaths that took place outside hospital. So by March 20 (the cut-off date for the ONS figures), the total number of known coronavirus deaths was 210, not 170 as the government had claimed. That’s around 23.5 per cent more. Today’s official death figure stands at 1,408. But if the proportion of deaths outside…

Conservative Party membership has plummeted – they are withholding the figures to hide the truth

January 6, 2018 Mike SivierConservative, figure, Grant Shapps, membership, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, number, Theresa May, Tories, Tory, Vox Political1 Comment

The only reason Grant Shapps has demanded that the Conservative Party publish its membership figure is to embarrass Theresa May. That’s fine by This Writer. Mr Shapps attempted to unseat the minority prime minister last year, after her disastrous performance at the Conservative Party Conference – but before the series of further calamities that befell the Tory government in the months that followed. And the party membership figure is sore point among Conservatives. Back in 2013, This Site reported that David Cameron had admitted the Tories had a membership of…

No, Robert Peston, Osborne was WRONG to impose austerity. Stop distorting the facts!

October 2, 2015 Mike Sivierausterity, Coalition, Conservative, economy, figure, George Osborne, Mainly Macro, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, national, office, ONS, Parliament, people, politics, Professor, revise, revision, Robert Peston, Simon, statistic, statistics, Tories, Tory, Vox Political, Wren-Lewis5 Comments

The BBC’s Tory economics editor Robert Peston is clutching at straws again. He’s trying to persuade us all that everything we thought we knew about the UK’s economy during the Coalition Parliament was wrong, and that growth was much stronger than we thought. He is being economical with the truth, it seems. He writes: “The ONS … says that the economy grew 1.5% in the general election year of 2010, then 2% after austerity bit in 2011 – revised up by the ONS from 1.6% – and then 1.2% in 2012,…

Accusations face indignation over disability-related deaths

September 29, 2015 Mike SivierArbeit macht frei, Auschwitz, bill of rights, Britannia Unchained, camp, chequebook euthanasia, compare, comparison, concentration, Conservative, cover-up, David Cameron, dead, death, die, disabled, Dominic Raab, extermination, fatality, figure, FOI, freedom, gas chamber, health, hide, Human Rights Act, Iain Duncan Smith, ill, information, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour, lazy, mental, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, mortality, Nazi, parallel, Pensions, people, policies, policy, politics, secretary, sick, Sioux Blair-Jordan, statistic, suicide, Tories, Tory, Vox Political, work, work capability assessment, work makes you free, workhouse27 Comments

More Conservatives have voiced their indignation at comparisons between their attitude to the disabled and that of the Nazis in Germany during the 1930s and 40s – despite the fact that there are clear parallels. The latest outburst was in response to claims by Sioux Blair-Jordan at the Labour Party conference, that if David Cameron enacts plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a Bill of Rights, the disabled and sick “might as well walk into the gas chamber today”. As explained in a Vox Political article yesterday,…

Unrepentant IDS will persecute the sick no matter what the death statistics say

August 25, 2015 Mike Sivierabuse of process, Age Standardised Mortality Rate, Aktion T4, allowance, anxiety, Arbeit macht frei, ASMR, Auschwitz, benefit, benefits, chequebook euthanasia, damage limitation, dead, death, Department, depression, die, disability, disabled, DWP, employment, ESA, figure, First-Tier, FOI, Freedom of Information, government, health, Iain Duncan Smith, IB, ill, illness, Incapacity Benefit, information, mental, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, Nazi, number, out, Paranoia, Pensions, people, plausible deniability, politics, request, sick, social security, statistic, stress, strike, struck, suicide, support, total, tribunal, Vox Political, WCA, welfare, work, work capability assessment, Work is good for your health40 Comments

The publication of the DWP’s damped-down death statistics (we’ll be given ratios because the actual number of deaths is too inflammatory, we’re told) will be a victory for those of us who have campaigned for the facts, no matter what they actually say. If you didn’t know already, the DWP only announced that it would publish these figures on Thursday (August 27) after This Writer supplied his submission to the Information Tribunal on the DWP’s appeal against providing the actual numbers – a submission which included a request to have the…

Location revealed for ‘benefit-related deaths’ Tribunal hearing in November

August 21, 2015 Mike Sivier15 Breams Buildings, age, allowance, appeal, ASMR, benefit, benefits, Conservative, data, dead, death, Department, die, DWP, employment, ESA, Field House, figure, First-Tier, FOI, freedom, fudge, hearing, IB, Incapacity Benefit, information, information rights, map, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, mortality, November 10, Pensions, publish, Rates, request, Standardised, statistic, support, Tories, Tory, tribunal, venue, Vox Political, work18 Comments

The First-tier Tribunal (Information Rights) has provided details of the venue for the ‘benefit-related deaths’ hearing at which the DWP will appeal for permission not to publish the exact number of people who have died while claiming incapacity benefits since November 2011. It will be at Field House, 15 Bream’s Buildings, London EC4A 1DZ, starting at 10am on November 10 this year. Apparently it’s a five-minute walk from Chancery Lane tube station; those of you with disabilities will need to plan extra time to allow for your conditions (although obviously…

Zac and Sarah don’t exist – why should we believe anything from the DWP?

August 20, 2015 Mike SivierAge Standardised Mortality Rate, allowance, ASMR, benefit, benefits, Chartered Institute, CIPR, damning, death, Department, DWP, employment, ESA, evidence, fabricated, false, figure, health, Iain Duncan Smith, IB, Incapacity Benefit, indictment, Jeremy Corbyn, lie, lying, number, Pensions, public relations, sanctions, Sarah, Sarah Pinch, scandal, statistic, support, uk statistics authority, work, Zac20 Comments

How can we trust the Department for Work and Pensions’ figures on incapacity benefit claimants’ deaths when we’ve had scandal after scandal from it over falsified evidence? The Department for Work and Pensions has been caught out in another lie – this time over the existence of people in two fake ‘case studies’ used to promote its cruel, unfair and vindictive sanctions regime. ‘Sarah’ was quoted praising the DWP for threatening to withdraw benefits if she refused to complete her CV, while ‘Zac’ praised the new benefit rules, which had…

Iain Duncan Smith accused of planning to ‘fudge’ benefit death stats – Mirror Online

August 19, 2015 Mike Sivierage, allowance, ASMR, benefit, benefits, Conservative, data, dead, death, Department, die, DWP, employment, ESA, figure, FOI, freedom, fudge, IB, Incapacity Benefit, information, liar, lie, Mike Sivier, mikesivier, mortality, Pensions, publish, Rates, request, Standardised, statistic, support, Tories, Tory, Vox Political, work12 Comments

View it as blowing my own trumpet if you like, but This Writer could not let the quiet announcement that the DWP will be publishing its doctored death statistics go by without a splash in the papers. The Daily Mirror has been brilliant on this whole story and its latest article continues the run: The department [of work and pensions] today announced a series of documents will be published on Thursday August 27th, detailing the number of deaths for people on out-of-work benefits, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or…

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