JerryChicken wrote:OK - contribute an opinion.
What do you think of the three spokespersons for HM Government when they heard the news from the Supreme Court that they had lost their appeal, why do you think messrs McVey, Duncan Smith and the anonymous DWP voice all focused on an element of the case that they won several months ago rather than commenting directly on the subject of their appeal ?
It is what politicians do. Not just politicians either. People in all walks of life.
Make things sound better/worse/different than they actually are.
It is a bit like when you and others call the spare room subsidy the 'bedroom tax' when it is not a tax in any way shape or form. You know the word tax has negative connotations so you use this phrase in an attempt to turn people to your opinion / make people sympathise with your point of view.
JerryChicken wrote:
And while you are contributing throw in your opinion on the fairly new phenomenon of Civil Service departments offering political opinions such as the DWP has done today by repeating the Tory Party line, this is a department who potentially may have to be tugging a forelock to a Labour Government in 18 months and probably singing from a different hymnsheet - so what do you think about them issuing statements that have clearly not been written with a neutral slant and when exactly do you think that started to happen ?
Should be simple enough for you to opine...
No opinion on this / Don't care.