There are statistics which are relevant to our lives, like the number of wards your local hospital is closing (1 in the case of Stepping Hill, Stockport, where one of the staff has family) and the number of staff being shed (350 at Stepping Hill) and the number of bank branches being closed locally (1 this month where the staff member’s family lives).
And then there is information that might be accurate but which is just plain useless. Like the news that charging 5p for a supermarket plastic bag last October will reduce the number of plastic bags handed out per year by 6 BILLION.
Okay, that piece of information is mildly interesting but some government stooge couldn’t resist adding that 6 BILLION plastic bags weight the same as 302 blue whales or 313,853 sea turtles or 3.13 MILLION pelicans. How strange that the stooge didn’t tack on how many useless government stooges making pointless calculations at the taxpayer’s expense have a total weight of 40,801 metric tons.
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