Watching coverage at the weekend of Ed Miliband’s speech and the associated march, one could be forgiven for thinking the Government’s cuts programme was as unpopular as the Iraq war. In fact the latest ICM poll [2] has 57% supporting the Coalition on the idea that cuts are necessary and 29% suggesting the cuts aren’t going far enough. Public support for the idea that the cuts are going too far is dropping off. Given the media’s consistent scaremongering and misrepresentation of the scale of the cuts, these numbers are remarkable.
The launch last week of Channel 4’s Cutsmap for people to tell stories of how cuts are affecting them in their region is a perfect example of only telling one side of the story. Where is the corresponding map showing w