Als thought for today: The more you know the less you believe them. Following on from my immediate reaction yesterday after the publication of the migration stats produced under the leadership of Christian Dustman and Tommaso Prattini (sorry couldnt resist that) , I was reminded of an almost parallel situation years ago when I was asked to investigate why, after a company had added a highly profitable product to its production line and all other aspects remaining the same had profit shown a reduction rather than an increase. The directors had been patting each other on the backs for months, glowing with satisfaction at the success of the product and its costed out profitability. I found upon checking costings that bar for a few errors, the product did indeed show a profit. I noted that in my report but continued that if the unrecorded scrap hidden in the basement at the rear of zone 3 was taken into account, this apparent profit became a loss. How similar is this to how national stats are produced to satisfy whatever agenda the producer/ paymaster happens to favour. Information is cherry picked to suit the required result . I suggest Mr Dustman consigns his report to the dustbin. The next load of bumf shortly to drop on our mats is that which shows a pie chart of how government spends our money. I have only had a scant viewing of this but even so some things are blindingly obvious. Costing millions to produce and distribute, it shows that the segment applicable to our membership of the EU club is miniscule. Though this is perfectly true when considering total spending, it is not true if one were to show the EU cost as a percentage of our 100billion annual deficit. It cannot show the vast unending indirect costs of companies/citizens having to pay for the effect of EU legislation. Furthermore, I draw your attention to the cost of financing the trillion plus we owe. It is a massive figure and the result of bad government over decades. Then we have Welfare costs shown as one segment when in fact this covers a multitude of different and unrelated areas. I assume this is shown in its entirety so that the government of the day can say that this needs to be drastically reduced. So there you have it; show the EU cost as bugger all and not worthy of attention but show the various items as Welfare as one homogenous item, a figure worthy of slashing
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:17:41 +0000
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