Sorry this post is going to be like one of your favourite TV shows where inevitably at least one episode is a hash up of clips from previous episodes…
Well this post is that episode…
I’m a bit behind with this but…
WOW talk about hypocrisy…
Esther McVey rebuking Labour over their use of Stats… Really, I’m mean REALLY!
This juicy peice, Esther McVey chastised by the speaker for its irrelevance in relation to the discussion was picked up by the Mirror news paper but failed to make the connection with McVeys history in regards to statistics herself, or that of her then boss Mr IDSmith and the 105,000 people who recognised their habit of twisting stats for their own political gain or the fact that they had been chastised numerous times by the office for statistics, as well as the DWP select committee…
This Minister has shown a selective memory over stats and an appalling track record on using them… here are the links to all the blog posts about Stats that I and my co activist Jayne Linney have done as well as others, over the last few years… you decide if McVey’s oh so innocent swipe at the Labour benches were hypocrisy at its most brazen… Dxxx
April 2013… Esther McVey your Facts Aren’t True
April 2013… Change.com Petition for the work and pensions committee to hold IDS to Account
May 2013 … Esther McVey’s letter arrives in Parliament
May 2013… Work and Pension Committee to Quiz the DWP over Statistics
May 2013… Work and Pensions Committee to Include Stats Quiz of Annual Review of DWP
June 2013… Esther McVey We Would Like a Reply Please
June 2013… Love Letters to a Tory MP re Governments Lying Habit, Sqwawkbox
June 2013… The Long Awaited Reply
July 2013… Update, IDS will answer for Misusing Stats
July 2013… IDS goes to the WP Select better Late than Never
August 2013… McVey Still Won’t Answer Us
August 2013… McVey Answers Politicians Even If She Ignores Us
October 2013… This is Rumour Control These Are The Facts
October 2013… The Conspicuous Absence of Ian Duncan Smith
November 2013… Our Petition Goes to Parliament At Last
November 2013… Your Chance to #haveyoursayids
November 2013… Finally the hand in Day Approaches Dxxx
November 2013… At Last
December 2013… #Whereisids @ The Work and Pensions Select Committee
May 2014… Petition 2 HOC Stop Ministers from Spinning Statistics Jayne Linney
May 2014… More Reasons to Stop Ministers Spinning Stats or Lying
June 2014… Is the Fight for Truth Important
June 2014… The Truth and Statistics Campaign Petition 2
June 2014… Panellists Hijack Question Time to Attack Ian Duncan SmithVoxpolitical
June 2014… DWP does not Spin Statistics says Government, We Know Bette
August 2014… Lies Damn Lies and Statistics
September 2014… IDS has nowhere to hideCornish Gunner
November 2014… 10 Lies from IDS in 4Short Bedroom Tax Responses
November 2014… IDS Time to Stop the Lies
November 2014… Sue Marsh on IDS
December 2014… Hope Whilst IDS Lies Continue to Persecute the Poor
April 2015… The Proven Lies of IDS Now He Must Answer
June 2015… Truth Seekers
September 2015… IDS Lies to the Tory Party Time for Him to go
January 2018… Fear and Loathing in Equal Measure
Phew… if you made it through those congratulations…
Jayne Linnely and myself have been thinking on what to do next… Watch This Space… Dxxx