Yeah i looked into that earlier after I had typed it. And the figure is misleading because: while that figure is correct, the "within six weeks" bit, bizarrely, does not mean "within the following six weeks": it means "within six weeks either side". What that means is that the large, presumably overwhelming, majority of those 10,600 people died, and then their claims ended because they were dead. So at least 7,000 of those people had their claims stopped because they were dead and not the other way around. Dodgy ****ers. Doesn't change the fact that the Tories are ****ing scum though, just wish people would use actual facts to bash them with, there are plenty to choose from. When you make **** up it only hurts your cause and makes you look foolish.
2,000 of them hadn't had their claims fully assessed at the point they croaked either. 1,300 died whilst engaged in some sort of work that went along side their benefits. They don't even hold the data for those who've died after leaving the benefits system, so it's a bullshit headline and as you rightly say detracts from the genuine message that should be put across. When they start dealing in made up 'facts' their argument has no credibility, they should heed that advice, as it took me all of a minute to find the official figures that debunked that headline.
As you're about 1000 miles further south than us I should hope so. It's been warmer here over the last few weeks that it was in the middle of summer. Still a whole 15 degrees here in Sheepland.
Its usually getting a little cool this time of year... Alternating between hot and cold. Most trees are showing some signs of colour change already. Crape Myrtles have already dropped leaves. It's not been unseasonably warm... We just haven't had the cold snaps we'd normally have had by now. The absolute low nightime temperatures here in mid winter actually get colder than the NW of England. Its not hot year round.
No, just down South. Why would I have heard of a Liverpool pub 250 miles away? I mean, I have heard of Liverpudlians mention "The Cheese" before and assumed it was an LFC pub, but I aint ever been in it so........
The wool boundaries are fluid. We include the likes of Kirkby and Huyton into the sound scouse lands, as despite being technically wool by being outside of the Liverpool boundary, they're all re-housed scousers who keep the baying hoards of egg chasers firmly in check at the borders of 'sound'.
