RichardNabavi

@tim - Somehow, I don't expect to see Labour campaigning on 'we'll cut housing benefit faster than George Osborne', but life is full of surprises. (View Post)

I saw the light years ago. So did George Osborne: Spending on housing benefit has risen from £14 billion ten years ago to £21 billion today. That is close to a 50 per cent increase over and above inf… (View Post)

@tim, @Jonathan - Yes, looks like we're winning that argument. Quite how the Guardian will react to being told Osborne and IDS were right all along, and that housing benefit needs to be drastically c… (View Post)

At what time do we get the preliminary guess from the ONS, based on 40% of the data, of whether the economy expanded in Q1 by one part in a thousand or contracted by one part in a thousand, with erro… (View Post)

The stats don't 'fall apart under scrutiny'. Even the Guardian admits that, accusing him of 'employing a linguistic sleight of hand' apparently on the basis that he didn't actually say what they woul… (View Post)