Guido Fact Check – Ed Misled
It seems Ed Miliband misled the House when he said that “under 13 years of a Labour Government, youth unemployment never reached 1 million…” The Department of Education statistics for young people not in employment, education, or training show that the number of young people who were unemployed under Labour hovered below a million all through 2008/09. However you can guess what happened in the third quarter of 2009 – the number of young unemployed hit 1,074,000, when the Work and Pensions Secretary was one Yvette Cooper. An apology to the House is the usual form…
Will Ed apologise to the house?
Lies? No change there then….
Liebor playing fast and loose with statistics. Why are we not surprised?
Another cunning stunt by Labour…. ?
By a not so stunning c*nt
A well-known Socialist Core Value. ” a Lie will be half way round the World before the Truth gets it’s boots on” . Att. to J Stalin, one of the Milliband family folk heroes.
Absolutely right and congratulations Guido as this will certainly shut the BBC up as to constantly saying that this is the first time the one million has been breached.
Should have a competition on the BBC’s new mantra for this?
The BBC stop saying such a headline? Don’t hold your breath.
Just because what they are saying is simply not true doesn’t mean they have to stop saying it, does it? No it doesn’t…
Yes but 74 001 of them do not count for various reasons so he is correct.
No the numbers are printed wrong,Guido should say sory for he has misled his readers.The latest number of neets are 1.63 million for the 3rd quarter.Net migration to Britain rose to 225.000 last year but that will be Labours fault.
Andy Edinburgh
Thorry houthe
chuckle
Genius.
Well there’s shocker…
Indeed, shocked and stunned !
What’s an apology?
What’s a resignation ?
Not in Labours deficit denying vocabulary.
Is the this the best Labour leader union money could buy?
ROFLMAO.
He is a supremely useless Hunt. At least the bastard is not in government.
But Wavy Davy is doing his best to make sure he soon is.
Youth unemployment was far higher under my government, we had 0% growth when I saved the world.
Why is my skin dropping off?
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Superhero brought down by kryptonite?
Labour scrapped the grammar schools. Once they closed the only door to education for the working classes, unemployment – and unemployability – followed.
Grammar schools help working class people like me get a good education which allows me to compete with socialists like Tony Benn and Michael Foot who’s parents sent them to fee paying schools
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-1
I’m worth more than a 1 – I saved the world. a – 10 or else.
Caroline Flint should apologise for her performance in the Commons now. Stupid beyond the tolerance limits.
O/T Anatole Kaletsky from behind the pay-wall blames the Bundesbank for pulling Merkel’s strings to spike Cam’s Big Bazooka.
Germans fail to sell all their 10 year bonds today. Oh oh. Though it could be that the lenders did not like the low (below 2%) interest rates offered on them. Who says low interest rates are so great?
Low interest rates coupled with being outside the Euro are attractive to the markets, which is why the most recent UK bond auction was over-subscribed.
So its the Euro that’s toxic.
So what?
Headline News on the BBC????????
Mwahhhhhh – I should cocoa!
let us hope that the Tory press follow Guido and expose
the lies and half truths that gush from Millibands mouth at PMQs.
They are all too busy with my “show trial” with zzzzz rated nonentities to bother with real world shattering news.
History is merely repeating itself with the Coalition government handed a position with toxic inertia from Labour.
Here in the North East, this is the daily read, to repeat false myths about historical events and to always blame the Tories.
Tory cuts are replacing the collieries closed by Thatcher is the cry – I ask the leftists (my family are mining stock) to look up Lord Robens, Labour MP for Blyth and head of the Coal Board for 10yrs and Labour’s Harold Wilson. During this period the Durham coalfield, like mining communities elsewhere, suffered its biggest closure program. During that same period Dr Beeching’s axe fell on the railways, happily implemented with swift speed by Labour’s Harold Wilson.
Coalition Inheritance:
1. Three times more manufacturing jobs lost under Labour than under Thatcher.
2. At the 2010 election 189 of the top 200 constituencies with highest benefit claimants were Labour controlled.
3. My council tax in 1997 around £675, 2010 £1450, implemented by Labour.
4. Youth unemployment was clearly rising from 2004, many suggesting a direct correlation with massive increases in immigration, a deliberate Labour policy.
5. North East Job Seeker Allowance claimants (ONS) in Nov 2007, 45,829 and in Jan 2010, 90,769 and for Oct 11, 87,422 – people looking for a job doubled under Labour.
6. The number of staff earning above £50,000 in North East local authorities in 1997 was 106 costing £6.49million, rising to 1705 staff in 2009-2010 costing
£117.54million.
7. Despite a referendum vote against such a move, Labour politicians wanted a Unitary Durham County Council for 2009/2010, claiming they would cut 600 jobs and save £21million each year, now shamelessly blaming the government for cuts and job losses.
8. Moaning that Surrey gets more money than Durham. Surrey gets £135 of government grant per head of population against Durham’s £458, but a better population match would be Wiltshire, which get £225.
9. Winter Fuel Allowance – not a cut, but simply complying with Labour’s budget that the increases were cleared written as temporary.
10. Massive hike in EU budget timed to explode when the new government takes over.
11. Utility Prices – crazy subsidies that hike our bills (that are now being reduced on solar panels and the like).
12. Knowingly denying there would be real power shortages in the coming decade.
Blaming the Tories is like blaming the fire service for attending an arsonists blaze.
why the fuck are the conservatives not ramming this down the throats of the British voters.FFS
I give up are the media that fucking in love with Labour
Hear, hear. Especially with the ‘gift’ of:
“There’s no money left…..”
WTF is Central Office up to? Every ‘cut’ announcement should be suffixed with:
“Thanks Gordon!”
Perhaps the thick proles that vote Liebour might, just might, start to get the message over 2-3 years.
Interesting too that youth employment rocketed during bullyballs tenure as secretary of state for education 2007-2009 a few years after labour had watered down academic GCSE’s and brought in ‘vocational’ BTEC’s and NVQ’s and kids were finishing school without the qualifications that employers wanted or needed.
If you get in first, you can say what you like, especially if you are the BBC.
Checking the truth of what they are actually saying doesn’t normally stop them, does it? Course not. They worship the ground that Miliband minimus and Balls slime their way across…
Woo Hooo !!!
I LUVS these ‘secret’ posts !!!
These stats went tits-up decades ago , darlin .
I’d goes soo far as to say they is practicly meaninless .
Prove Ewa wrong , if ya can .
E x .
As an aside, Weird Ed’s reading of the names of British Servicemen killed in Afghanistan in today’s PMQs might sound more believable if he could at least learn to pronounce their ranks correctly. In the British Military Lieutenant is pronounced Leftenant. But then I think he probably learnt how to respect our war dead from Jonah Cyclops’s approach!
Must’ve been thinking of Bliar’s and McDoom’s massive incomes when he said LOOTenant
Brown always did the same. Demonstrates their grip on military affairs doesn’t it?
My facts inform me that Labour are responsible for just under a million of youth unemployment. Not far off a million.
I made Ed Balls ball.
“bawl”
Guido
The curious thing is if you check the official 16-24 unemployed figures from ONS, they don’t go above 1 million. See:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/data-selector.html?cdid=MGVF&dataset=lms&table-id=14
Not defending Ed (god forbid!). Just pointing out that this looks like more of a stats issue. Cock up at DfE?
So not only do they lie , but they are so shite at it they have to get AlBeeb to print re-invented figures.
Truly Orwellian.
Not a cock up: unemployed stats look at only the economically active but include those in education, NEET stats count those not in education, employment or training but include the economically inactive as well. Youth unemployment never reached a mill under labour but NEEThood sure did.
Sorry, I read that as 174,000. Easy mistake to make.