Lies, Damned Lies, and Infogove

Efficiency savings and vital aid from the private sector are presumably in order for the UK Statistics Authority, which has shown itself unduly concerned with mere facts. Even as Britain lies frozen under a doomsday shroud of the dreaded dihydrogenated monoxide, a rebellious Scot has dared to call in question the brightness of the sunlit uplands. The traitor cited a visual rah-rah splurged by the jabbering homunculus Michael Gove, to the effect that £800 billion worth of new trade is one of the reasons why we can't pay our nurses properly. As one would expect from the kind of Murdoch flunkey who autographed the Bible and doesn't know what an average is, Gove did not deign to specify his sources, and counted as "new" trade that would have happened with or without the hurriedly-bodged and hyperbolically-boasted deals which followed the UK's cutting the Continent loose. The chair of the Statistics Authority not only agreed with the Rebel dog, but suggested that Gove correct the record, thereby demonstrating a concern for pedantry over patriotism which goes beyond the culpably expert and skirts perilously close to the fanatical.