| Topic: | Major things we get wrong. | |
| Posted by: | Stewart Dean | |
| Date/Time: | 10/07/13 10:06:00 |
| The reason why we get terrible people representing us is that we support policies that are not based on reality, but fables. From the Independent. "Benefit fraud: the public think that £24 of every £100 of benefits is fraudulently claimed. Official estimates are that just 70 pence in every £100 is fraudulent - so the public conception is out by a factor of 34." Read more about it here. British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows Essentially the Conservatives put through policies that appeal to their voters and those voters have opinions that are factually incorrect. There fore we get real world solutions to non existant problems - leading to vast amounts of money being spent. See bed room tax for example. |