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Why the bedroom tax has cost more than it has saved – SPeye Joe

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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.

This is an article worth reading and saving for posterity.

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