No, Robert Peston, Osborne was WRONG to impose austerity. Stop distorting the facts!
The BBC’s Tory economics editor Robert Peston is clutching at straws again. He’s trying to persuade us all that everything …
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On Employment and Support Allowance, Ms Patel isn’t sitting pretty
The new Parliamentary session is going to be very hard on Iain Duncan Smith and his team (if you can …
Why the delay, DWP? The ONS has templates on calculating death rates
Did you know that the Department for Work and Pensions spent two years delaying the publication of death figures for …
What is the REAL reason more older people are working?
The Conservative Government slipped out an insidious little press release over the weekend, claiming the number of people aged 50-65 …
The poor pay more tax than the rich – and Tories want to cut the highest rate
The UK’s poorest families give more money to the government in tax than any other income group – and almost …
Vox Political vindicated on unemployment figures
How pleasant to see Vox Political‘s concerns about the massaging of UK unemployment figures being taken up by the kind …
Huge increase in zero-hour contracts – in a ‘booming’ economy?
Here are a few figures from the Office of National Statistics: Number of people employed on a “zero-hours contract” in their …
The UK’s main growth area continues to be SUICIDE
The Office for National Statistics has released the latest figures on suicide, which show that the proportion of people taking their …
Risible PMQs performance is no win for Cameron
Was anybody else dismayed to see media commentator after media commentator blithely commenting that this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions was, …
Unemployment figures are a sanction-based stitch-up, research shows
The Coalition government will be crowing about the latest drop in unemployment today – according to official statistics. What a …