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Thursday 15 January 2009

Gordon Brown and his problems with mathematics (update)

Further to my blog yesterday about Gordon Brown's worrying problem with simple multiplication. I see that Hansard have reported his words thus: "that £5 extra is in people’s pockets—that is £275 a year". The BBC are sticking with "Mr Brown defends the VAT cut, saying it gives the typical family an extra £5 a week to spend.".

As I said yesterday, are the BBC unaware that 5 x 52 does not equal 275? Do they have nobody who can multiply a two digit number by 5 working there? Or are they trying to protect the Prime Minister from ridicule?


Ask yourself this, if a similar error had been made by Margaret Thatcher or John Major when they were Prime Minister or by any subsequent leader or shadow Chancellor, do you think the BBC would have played the clip over and over and over again for years.

2 comments:

Dungeekin said...

Much as I detest Mr Twit, I think the BBC can't really say much, as this is probably just a case of 'rounding down'.

£275/52 weeks = £5.29 per week.

So he just left off the pence. Doesn't really count as a con on the level of all the others this Regime has perpetrated upon us!

D

Anonymous said...

Simply shows the state of education and mathematics under NuLabor