IDS lies to Parliament re statistical spanking

Reblogged from The SKWAWKBOX Blog:

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I wrote yesterday about the sound backside-spanking that Iain (Duncan) Smith had received from the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) for claiming statistics showed effects of Tory policies, which the UKSA said, as categorically as could be

are unsupported by the official statistics.

The UKSA also criticised the DWP for making the claim even though the official statistical release

explicitly states that the figures are not intended to show the additional numbers returning to work as a direct result…

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$112 billion in Derivatives and off the books accounting. John Key can't help himself!!!

Reblogged from Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective:

In an astonishingly critical lecture Associate professor Dr Sue Newberry, from the University of Sydney told an Auckland audience that the NZ government has defrauded the New Zealand population. Well of course she did not speak in those terms but she might as well have because if you or I had used the accountant procedures we would be in jail for fraud .

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