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Can’t resist a quick pre-weekend swipe at the Conservative’s latest announcements on crime. Law and order is an important issue for Poli-Chicks everywhere... especially violent crime. We have to be able to trust politicians when they tell us how safe the country is- and how they would make it safer.
The seriousness of the issue makes the Conservative claims here more outrageous. Chris Grayling, Shadow Home Secretary, claimed that violent crime had risen dramatically since 1997. In fact, as the UK Statistics Authority pointed out, the figures were not comparable stating,
“(We) must take issue with what you said yesterday about violent crime statistics, which seems to likely to damage public trust in official statistics."
And if a Poli-Chick can’t trust an official statistic, how is she meant to know who to vote for? This isn’t the first time the Authority has rebuked an MP for misrepresenting statistics- Harriet Harman was pulled up earlier in the year on her use of gender pay reporting stats.
Shame on you both...
Poli-Chick xx
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