[danielf]

Originally Posted by Chris

Make no mistake, the real title of this thread is "Hey, them Tories is bent too!" and it deserves to be used for the partisan mud-slinging for which it was created. So pointing out Mandy's mortgage is fair game.

In that case, allow me:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7013303.ece

The Conservatives have been accused by police of misusing official statistics after sending out figures suggesting violent crime had soared under Labour.

Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, was criticised after Conservative headquarters sent activists figures comparing levels of violent crime in their constituency between 1999 and 2008. Official statisticians say this is misleading because the method of collecting data was changed in 2002.

The figures were sent to Tory MPs and candidates in constituencies throughout England and Wales to drive home David Cameron’s claim that Labour has presided over the creation of a “broken Britain”.

They omitted Home Office warnings that the figures for the periods before and after 2002 were not comparable because of a change in the way violent crime was recorded.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1889927.html

Chris Grayling, the man lined up by David Cameron to be the next home secretary, has received a stinging rebuke for manipulating official statistics. Sir Michael Scholar, chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, has warned him that the way he used figures for violent crime were "likely to mislead the public".