A survey from the Royal Statistical society and King’s Collage Oxford has revealed that the British public are talking out of their arses again. This is due to a combination of government ministers bullshitting like mechanical muckspreaders, the press talking even more bollocks than usual, and the belief that we’re all rather astute and political, and would never climb onto a shit-wagon if some tosspot in a Saville Row suit told us it was a shiny new Rolls Royce.
The Executive Director of the company that carried out the telephone survey said:
“Sadly, we as a nation have only slightly more of an idea about the statistics on crime, benefits and immigration, as a 14th Century professional hermit would have about the mating rituals of the coconut crab. We’re like a nation of David Camerons trying to eat a foot long hot dog with chopsticks. Some of these findings are seriously mental, and many of us have got it all worryingly arse-about-face,”
We’ve got a pretty feverish imagination when it comes to how much unprotected sex British teenagers are having. According to the public, 15% of teenage girls are up the duff by 16. If this were true, the Arcadia group aren’t ones to miss a trick, and Topshop would be doing a roaring trade in neon purple PVC maternity wear and 5 inch heels that stretch when your feet swell up. But the official figure is closer to 0.6%, meaning our teenagers are almost fifteen times more responsible than the public thinks they are, even if they do wear stupid clothes and listen to crap music.
Another major misconception is benefit fraud, with the public estimating it to be £24 in every £100. This is thought to be due to government propaganda portraying benefit recipients as a cross between Dickensian criminal Bill Sykes, and the top ten most hated guests on the Jeremy Kyle show. Or maybe they just saw loads of people on crutches that day, and deduced that some of them must be trying it on. But the official figure is just 70p in the pound.
13% of the population are recent immigrants, coming over here and taking our women and forcing us at bomb-point to eat Halal Subway sandwiches. This figure includes illegal immigrants, but it also covers people that drive taxis and work in offices and hospitals and pay taxes, the cheeky sods. Compared with the public’s estimate of 31%, we either all bumped into to the same family wedding party that day, or somebody has been painting the roses red.
Apparently our government spends more on foreign aid than it does on loads of other things. Or does it? The survey again found this to be a complete bag of dicks, and government aid does not appear in the top 3 of the countries’ expenditure, and comes in at 1.1%.
Finally, we spend 15 times more on pensions than on Jobseeker’s allowance.
“But try telling that to some Daily Mail-reading old dear sitting at home, rationing her Smart Price digestives,”
Said the Executive Director.
“Anybody would think we’d been deliberately mis-led,”
The Beezly Street Gazette 