Showing posts with label Liebrary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liebrary. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Graphs at a glance: The effect of political fibbing exposed by Office of National Statistics report showing fewer than one in three of us 'tend to trust' the government

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There is nothing like a government to prove the old adage of "lies, damn lies, and statistics".  In March 2014 a BBC Newsnight...
Saturday, 30 November 2013

Liebrary: PFI saves us virtually nothing, if you believe the NAO’s figures. If you believe the Commons Treasury Committee, it costs us a vast amount that nobody has yet quantified

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Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) were first used by the Conservatives in 1992, were enthusiastically embraced by Labour when they came in...
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Saturday, 23 November 2013

Liebrary: Does Government "Help To Buy" help house buyers on modest incomes get 95% mortgages? Shelter, the housing charity, reveals that people on average incomes can't actually afford repayments on 95% mortgages

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UPDATE JAN 2017: One of the government's flagship home ownership programmes, the Help-to-Buy Mortgage Guarantee scheme, ended on 31st D...
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Saturday, 21 September 2013

Graphs at a glance: Government wants you to think we made a profit on sale of Lloyds Bank shares. Actually we made a thumping loss!

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http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Interactive-chart The UK government’s sale of the first tranche of Lloyds Banking Group shares,...
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Saturday, 24 August 2013

Graphs at a glance: Are cuts to incomes and services really necessary? Are Britons really too expensive for Britain?

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In August 2013 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised the second quarter growth figure from a spongy 0.6% to a strident 0.7% . T...
Sunday, 28 July 2013

Liebrary: Do we have to maintain exorbitant pay for bankers because everybody else does? See the data that shows we've been suckered.

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Excessive pay in the banking industry has long been justified by the need to 'stay competitive' in the global market. The UK has to ...
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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Liebrary: Do tax deals with tax havens deal with tax dodging? Here's how the UK's hoped for £3.2billion tax haul from the UK- Switzerland deal disappeared

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Legend has it that the Forty Thieves, who were ultimately extinguished by Ali Baba, once had a lucky escape. The cops had them surrounded ...
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Sunday, 30 June 2013

Liebrary: Is affordable housing in London intended for people on modest incomes? Actually the eligibility limit for this subsidy is a household income of £80,000!

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UPDATE JAN 2017: One of the government's flagship home ownership programmes, the Help-to-Buy Mortgage Guarantee scheme,  ended on 31st...
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Saturday, 22 June 2013

Graphs at a glance: Are swingeing cuts to legal aid needed because the cost is ballooning out of control? Actually the Legal Aid bill has been falling for years.

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The wealthy live more opulently than the poor. But generally speaking the expensively dressed wealthy don't themselves benefit from the ...
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Saturday, 18 May 2013

Liebrary: "If it isn't hurting, it isn't working". How Austerity worked for the few by hurting the many

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An earlier Tory chancellor during an earlier crisis claimed " If it isn't hurting it isn't working ". This, together with ...
Saturday, 11 May 2013

Liebrary: The truth according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) behind the Public and Private Sector pay differential

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The government gets regularly rapped by its own statistics body, the UK Statistics Authority , for making up stuff to support government pol...
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Saturday, 27 April 2013

Liebrary: Is Corporation Tax being cut to make us more competitive? Or is there another reason?

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Adam Smith, the patron saint of capitalism, theorised that by everyone behaving selfishly the 'invisible hand' of all the selfishn...
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Saturday, 20 April 2013

Liebrary: Are wages and employment rights being cut to make Britain more competitive? Or is there another reason?

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Our leaders tell us we must be more competitive. So we can work ourselves out of the banker induced crisis. They tell us that to earn money ...
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Sunday, 3 February 2013

Liebrary: Do high pay and bonuses encourage high performance and excellence? A US Federal Reserve study says high reward actually results in worse performance!

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Now here is something all the fat cats and their apologists really don't want us to see: scientific evidence that paying them fat salari...
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Sunday, 13 January 2013

Liebrary: Are the unemployed (a) Skivers and (b) A cause of the ballooning benefits bill? ONS and DWP figures show they are neither.

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We are told not to be harsh on bankers because most bankers are not reckless rogues (just the ones in the board rooms and on trading desks)....
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Sunday, 9 December 2012

Liebrary: Is the UK national debt at a historic high? Actually it's lower than it has been for most of the last 300 years.

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In the Autumn Statement of 2012 the  chancellor’s idea of ‘more Austerity ’ was not much of a surprise. To prove "we are all in it tog...
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Friday, 2 November 2012

Liebrary: Cutting benefits will push the work-shy into employment? Actually benefits subsidise the low wages of millions of working Britons.

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More evidence that benefits subsidise business comes from the report by Queen Mary University of London . The London Living Wage is calc...
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Sunday, 28 October 2012

Liebrary: Are energy companies really forced to raise prices due to high wholesale prices?

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We notice that energy company spokesmen  defend price hikes  on television, radio and in print  by claiming to buy all their energy on the...
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Sunday, 23 September 2012

Rail fare increases - gouging profits or a stealth tax?

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