(Please sing the petition:here)
That
one million includes single mothers who are at home looking after young
children, people who are seriously ill but may eventually get better,
and people who may be ill but have yet to be tested[1].
As two disabled people affected by the benefit changes, we're fed up with the spin. That's
why we’ve started a petition on Change.org calling for Iain Duncan
Smith to be held accountable for his use of statistics which, according
to reports, is in question. Click here to sign.
Iain Duncan Smith needs to realise that what he says affects people.
We live everyday with the reality of the benefit changes and it’s awful
to keep hearing people like us portrayed as scroungers. Worse, it's not
the only the only misleading thing that Iain Duncan Smith has said. He
was recently criticised by the former Chief Economist at his own
department for spreading misinformation about the impact of welfare
changes[2].
Last month over half a
million people called on Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week and
succeeded in changing the conversation - the media was full of stories
about holding IDS to account. Now you can help make that happen for
real.
The job of the Work and Pensions
Committee is to scrutinise government policy and the action of
Government ministers. They can question Iain Duncan Smith about his
statements and get to the truth behind the statistics.
The government can debate policy but it should tell us the truth.
Thank you,
Jayne Linney and Debbie Sayers
Jayne Linney and Debbie Sayers
[1] The Economist - Government Statistics: Fixing the figures
[2] The Guardian - Conservative claims about benefits are not just spin, they're making it up
Image by Brian Minkoff - London Pixels, via Wikimedia Commons
[2] The Guardian - Conservative claims about benefits are not just spin, they're making it up
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