Telegraph Misleads Public On Behalf Of Tories.

In a very carefully worded article in todays "Daily Telegraph" reporter Victoria Ward has deliberately mislead readers about the unemployed. The article attempts to demonstrate that half of all unemployed people are actually on the fiddle and, when challenged, immediately drop their claims rather than be forced into unpaid work. Government officials, she breathlessly informs us, are "shocked" by the figures which prove that half of all the unemployed are secretly working or have other means of financial support. No they don't. What has actually happened is that selected jobcentres have targetted hard core, long-term unemployed who are suspected of fraud and, surprise, surprise, half of them have been found to be on the fiddle. What is certainly does not prove, as the "Telegraph" would like us to believe is that half of all the unemployed are on the fiddle. The dice were loaded in favour of this conclusion and the evidence carefully managed to provide the answer that was wanted. Of course that is all the evidence that those who have thrown millions out of work but who don't want to pay taxes to support the unemployed need. It is an alibi, a thinly disguised excuse for doing something nasty and vicious by a Tory party dedicated to the selfish pursuit of their own interests.