Shock News – newspaper publishes biased news.

Well, hold the front pages – this is an amazing revelation!

It may surprise you to learn this, but all newspapers pander to their readerships political biases.

You might as well complain that the Guardian is generally too left wing, or that the Sun slavishly follows the opinion polls.

“showing that the Housing Benefit changes will hit more than 936,000 families, who will lose an average of £12 a week each. ”

Oooooh, my!

“936,960 households across the UK will each lose around £12 a week (£624 a year)”

Gosh!

A rough and ready calculation shows us that housing benefit costs the average household in the UK £700 a year in taxation (30 million households, £20 billion bill).

So we could interpret this as 1 million households now being able to use their own money for their own housing costs rather than having to pay for someone else’s through hte tax system.

Bit of a winner that really.

Russian Oligarch uses his own paper to compalin about possible rises in his house tax shocker.

Tim, you do realise that the nearly 1M households will not be getting any more money from other sources, don’t you.

That indeed, they will see VAT increases that reduce their disposable income further.

Bit of a loser, actually.

@Tim

You’ve forgotten one crucial fact: the average household doesn’t exist, and you don’t understand how taxation works.

@Gwyn

That’s two facts, you div.

“You might as well complain that the Guardian is generally too left wing, or that the Sun slavishly follows the opinion polls.”
Didn’t the Guardian back the lib dems, the ones in co power and most of their columnists wanted them to join the coalition.
A better headline would be
“Ianvisits, right wing jouno with too much time on his hands ! “.
Hopefully all jounos (because the majority are right wing tits) will be put on the dole que thanks to the internet.
They keep pressing for people to lose their jobs.