It's not often that we showcase a report about the numbers of homeless veterans in Britain without a collective sigh of despair, but this is that rare exception. It first appeared on July 2013 in The Bullshit Detector and is resurrected here now because Veterans Aid is still regularly fielding calls from individuals who believe that 'nothing is done for veterans' and that vast numbers of them (as a result of their military service!) are being forced into homelessness.
Our archive of published reports and reportage - based often on tales told to gullible journalists, those driving campaigns or just the well-meaning uninformed - reveals a catalogue of inconsistency, exaggeration and nonsense.
No wonder then that the response of everyone from members of the public to senior politicians is one of outrage, that new charities are proliferating and that misplaced passion about scare stories is deflecting people from the real issues.
So thank you, Jeremy Swain, for using the platform of The Bullshit Detector to echo our frustration.
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