Massaging Statistics - part two.

When will the government learn that the old cloak and dagger covering up of bad news, by the manipulation of statistics will always come back and haunt you. After all, on Sunday it was revealed that Gordon Brown had his knuckles rapped over tax credit stats.

However, today the Daily Mail (in a desperate attempt to appear impartial) have accused the goverment of covering up the numbers of unemployed in this country as being "nearly ten million people in Britain are out of work - more than six times the official unemployment rate".

Now, I may be cynical but even I don;t think that this is the real figure, I believe it to be much higher. But it does show at how good this governmenr is of spinning its way out of trouble with its massaged numbers.