Awful Amanda’s Irony-free fact-free balls-up part 574
I could have written about the appallingly useless Australian-born immigrant-baiter Amanda Platell’s ‘journalism’ ‘skills’ in today’s latest grotty Daily Mail piece where she comes out with the following old guff…
… but instead I’ll link to Angry Mob who say what I would have said only far more eloquently, including the following facts:
Platell: The cost of unemployment in the UK is now £346 billion – with £100 billion of that paid in housing benefits alone.
Angry Mob: But what do you mean Amanda? Do you mean that each year we spend £346 billion on benefits? It certainly sounds that way, doesn’t it. Then you track down the source and find out that Amanda has removed a bit of important context to make the figure sound scarier: More than £340bn has been paid in state benefits to the jobless since Labour came to power in 1997, the Tories will disclose today. Oh, I see, so it is not a yearly figure at all, but a figure since 1997. This means that on average we have spent £28.3 billion on benefits each year in total, with around £8.3 billion of that on housing benefits – you know, that little thing of giving someone a roof over their head.
Makes me sad that my parents would have read this balls this morning and got all knicker-twisty. Or rather they would if they were not currently staying in their house in another country at the moment. Bloody foreigners going over there and taking all their houses and…er…
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