Sky News reporting that the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority has officially rebuked Cameron's Conservatives over their scaremongering tactics over violent crime (as I posted HERE.
In a letter sent to David Cameron, the UK Stats Authority says the Tory attempt to show violent crime had risen is misleading and a misuse of statistics.
The UK Stats Authority questions why the Tories did not use the well respected British Crime Survey figures.
The answer of course is obvious...
Because the independent BCS shows that violent crime has in fact HALVED in recent years.
The Tory fox is now well and truly shot.
So no more 'Broken Britain' bollox Mr Cameron.
UPDATE: How The Times is reporting the story.
UPDATE 2: The BBC's Mark Easton gives his take on the rebuke for the Tories and says the Stats Authority takes issue with the claims Chris Grayling made on the Tpoday programme yesterday.
Watch this space for the Tory apology. But don't hold your breath!
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
BBC says Tories 'shopped' on crime con...
Delighted to hear the Conservative con on violent crime figures exposed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning.
As I posted last week HERE, David Cameron's 'Broken Britain' campaign relies heavily on them being able to prove violent crime is rising...when he knows that in fact the reverse is the truth.
This morning, the BBC put Mark Easton - their journalist who first publicised the Tory con - head to head with Cameron's spokesman on crime, Chris Grayling.
Grayling had sent out spurious statistics to local Conservative parties across the country encouraging them to claim violent crime had risen since 1997.
Mark Easton explained that the Tories had ignored official clear warnings that the figures they were sending out could not be compared due to major improvements in recording violent crime.
The Conservative spokesman tried to move the debate onto his promise to make collection of crime figures independent of Government.
Mark Easton point out that the British Crime Survey, which has been around for 30 years, IS independent of Government and shows that in recnet years violent crime has been halved - down a full 50 per cent.
The Today presented challenged Mr Grayling: "Now that you have been shopped, will you send out a note to local Conservative parties instructing them not to use these figures...?"
No, of course not.
If they did that, the entire 'Britain is Broken' scare-mongering would be shown for what it is - a Tory con.
As I posted last week HERE, David Cameron's 'Broken Britain' campaign relies heavily on them being able to prove violent crime is rising...when he knows that in fact the reverse is the truth.
This morning, the BBC put Mark Easton - their journalist who first publicised the Tory con - head to head with Cameron's spokesman on crime, Chris Grayling.
Grayling had sent out spurious statistics to local Conservative parties across the country encouraging them to claim violent crime had risen since 1997.
Mark Easton explained that the Tories had ignored official clear warnings that the figures they were sending out could not be compared due to major improvements in recording violent crime.
The Conservative spokesman tried to move the debate onto his promise to make collection of crime figures independent of Government.
Mark Easton point out that the British Crime Survey, which has been around for 30 years, IS independent of Government and shows that in recnet years violent crime has been halved - down a full 50 per cent.
The Today presented challenged Mr Grayling: "Now that you have been shopped, will you send out a note to local Conservative parties instructing them not to use these figures...?"
No, of course not.
If they did that, the entire 'Britain is Broken' scare-mongering would be shown for what it is - a Tory con.
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