Welfare Fraud

Well, here's a thing: the Department for Workfare and Privation has been quoting the thing that is not in a leaflet about how simple, fair and consistent the benefits system is. In response to a Freedom of Information request, the minions of the brilliant Iain Duncan Smith admitted that they had used stock photographs and that the stirring anecdotes of saintly DWP henchbeings sanctioning people hardly at all were "for illustrative purposes only" or, in Standard English, false. Although the leaflet has been removed from the DWP website, the exercise was so innocent of any intent to deceive that a spokesbeing was swiftly extruded to exonerate the brilliant Duncan Smith of any involvement whatever, despite the illustrative purposivity which the minister has shown throughout his long, squelchy scramble up the Whitehall coprocracy.