Have a read
http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Truth-And-Lies-Report-smaller.pdf
Have a read
http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Truth-And-Lies-Report-smaller.pdf
Especially take a look at the graphs on pages 27 & 28 and the report's comments concerning the data shown by the graphs.
Apparently every MP in the country was sent a copy. Wonder if ours has read it?
http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/truthandliesaboutpoverty/
Thank you for posting this. The myths are the same as they have been for decades. As now, the Daily Malice trumpeted them in the 1970s and probably before then.
Being an atheist does not stop me appreciating a great deal of the work done by people of faith.