It seems that in the recent Prime Minister's Questions Bottler Brown, desperate to support his flagging cause, claimed that Labour targets had led to a decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Rachel Joyce, a hospital doctor and Conservative Spokesperson for Harrow West (- would have been p.p.c. and fought the election there if Gordon hadn't bottled the election?), in her blog points us to evidence from the British Heart Foundation.
Gordon's nostrums have done no more than continue a trend which started in the 1970s. In Cardiac disease alone the real take-off was during the Thatcher years. The slow decline in smoking is the cause Dr. Joyce indicates for all such diseases.
It's a re-run of the "fifty quarters of unbroken economic growth" which he claimed, as if he was in control during 20 quarters under the Conservative Government.
We are used to the Libdems in their "yellow peril" taking credit for anything good which happens, but Bottler surpasses them in taking credit for things that happened even before he brought his policies in!
Veritas
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The disease is becoming something of an epidemic. In House of Lords Questions on October 15th, Lord Davies of Oldham, insisted that we now have the lowest corporation tax in the OECD.
The truth, of course, is different, - Austria, Holland, Finland, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg all have lower rates. Some of their rates were reduced below our 28% a few years ago, so the Noble Lord is either well out of date, or is being economical with the truth.
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