Dispelling a myth

Some on the Twittersphere have claimed that Gove's scaling back of the BSF scheme has hit 'Labour heartlands the hardest'. The basis of this claim lies in the fact that Labour MPs have had many more school building works 'Stopped'. However, what this claim completely ignores is that the BSF had many more projects - for better or worse - in Labour heartlands in the first place.

Here are the facts (which I took the trouble of downloading and analysing from the Guardian website):

The full scheme list contains 472 schools under Conservative MPs, 110 under Lib Dem MPs and 1016 under Labour MPs.

Of the school projects that were completely stopped: 267 were under Conservative MPs, 41 Lib Dem and 417 Labour.

So, undoubtedly, more projects have been cancelled in areas of Labour MPs. But that doesn't mean that Labour heartlands have been hit harder than everywhere else. Since 'the left' are so wrapped up in relativities:

57% of BSF projetcs in areas under Conservative MPs were stopped.
37% of BSF projects in areas under Lib Dem MPs were stopped.
41% of BSF projects in areas under Labour MPs were stopped.

Therefore, stop your bleating about 'hitting Labour harder' at once.