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Showing posts with label ONS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ONS. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 April 2015

ONS rebukes Labour over zero-hours poster per PoliticsHome.com

More Labour lies exposed?
'The Office for National Statistics has issued a correction to a Labour claim that '1.8 million people' are on zero-hours contracts.

The ONS official Twitter account picked up on a new posted that quoted the figure, pointing out that there are actually 1.8 million contracts, but only 697,000 people have a zero-hours contract for their main job.'

More here but not at the BBC who are more than ever in full VOTE LABOUR mode.

Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Government minister "shoots the messenger" - what a surprise

Apparently:
"Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has accused the Office for National Statistics of "playing politics" with population figures.

He said he was "appalled" at the release of figures showing one in nine British residents was born abroad.

In a letter Mr Woolas describes the decision to release the data as "at best naive or, at worst, sinister". "


Does anyone else find the sight of a Labour government minister accusing the ONS of "playing politics" by releasing statistics at best laughable and at worst disgraceful?