Is there no end to the lies tories will purvey to justify their continuing existence as an apology for a government?
This morning on the Marr show, the interviewer challenged, (ever so gently!), the tory chairman, Patrick McLoughlin, about forthcoming tory cuts to disability benefits.
McLoughlin claimed that his government was 'very generous' to the disabled, spending over £50bn a year on the disabled.
Sadly, as McLoughlin knows perfectly well, that is not the view of the United Nations who just over three months ago published a report, following an investigation into the UK's treatment of people with disabilities.
This is what the UK's Disability News Service had to say about the tory government's policy on the disabled following the UN investigation found that the government was guilty violating the rights of disabled people and in breach of the UN convention.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/uns-conclusion-that-uk-violated-disability-rights-is-vindication-for-activists/
Did Marr press the matter with McLoughlin, knowing that he had avoided a truthful answer and simply trotted out an unlikely statistic to divert attention away from the reality? No, of course he didn't! It really wouldn't have mattered which BBC stooge had asked the question - Robinson or Kuenssberg would have given the liar just as easy a ride - as they are not there to discredit the tory party, being as they are a part of it and paid to support the government line.
If anyone needed any further evidence that the tory party will ride roughshod, not only over the poor and the disabled but over any opposition either at home or internationally-based, it's right here, right now!
Tom