Lies, Damned Lies And Ian Duncan Smith Statistics.

After 18 months in government it has become increasingly plain that Ian Duncan Smith likes to tell porky pies. All benefit claimants, including those recently made unemployed by this callous government, are scroungers, all disabled people are secretly Olympic atheletes, all unmarried mothers are after luxury council houses with swimming pools and built-in saunas and, now, 371,000 foreigners are claiming benefits. This last statistic would be true but for one embarrasing fact - most of them have been granted British citizenship, many of them by this government. Foreign born they may have been but they were allowed into this country because, as the Tories are so fond of saying, "they will do the jobs that British workers won't do," while many of them came to Britain with qualifications badly needed in the economy. And many of them have now been thrown out of work because of George Osborne's insane economic policies. These misleading figures were released to the press as a "research paper" and, therefore, bypassed the usual checks on Ministers code of conduct. Better yet it has now been revealed that, in order for IDS's idea of a single benefit regime to work, he has sneaked through new regulations that will allow many, many more civil servants to access our tax records - something that even the police are not allowed to do without special permission. Ian Duncan Smith is a devotee of the "Big Lie," the technique pioneered by Hitler which, as he once said, "will be believed if repeated often enough" and "will have the force of authority long after the lie has been nailed." Of all the cabinet Ministers in this woeful collection of toffs, spivs, conmen and pickpockets, Ian Duncan Smith has the least developed sense of what democracy actually is and the most highly developed disdain for the people of this country. He is the worst kind of Tory amongst a pretty loathesome bunch - a liar and a demagogue, a man with no sense of honour and an utter disregard for those who are not as wealthy as him. In a word, utter scum.