Eric Pickles Misleading

Ben Goldacre has a typically incisive article on the poor quality analysis used in local government stories.  He doesn't go beyond the particular example to point out that Eric Pickles uses misleading presentation systematically to discredit local democrary.  He has done this with Council Publicity, the country's general economic situation, scaremongering around bin collections, and of course his "Chief Executives paid more than the Prime Minister" line.