Creative statistics
Fraser Nelson we've come across before, claiming that New Orleans was richer than London on the basis of confusing household and per capita income. Here's another classic:Official figures provided to The Spectator show that there were 5.1 million people on out-of-work benefits when Labour took office. As of last February, that figure had fallen by just 867,000 — not much to show for what Mr Brown likes to describe as the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth in a century. In a decade, he made less progress than the Thatcher government did between 1987 and 1990, when the comparable jobless count fell by 895,000.
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posted by Matthew @ 10/07/2008 08:40:00 PM
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