Thursday 4 September 2008

NOW That's what I call spin!

From this morning's BBC report

A spokesman for the Department of Communities and Local Government said that UK house prices were still significantly higher than five years ago.

3 comments:

Simon Fawthrop said...

Sub text - so they still have a long way to fall.

Anonymous said...

"significantly": in any non-statistical context, the spoor of the twit.

Snafu said...

Will we have to wait long for the spokesman to say that UK house prices are still "significantly higher than ten years ago!?!