Why does having an explanation for why the discrepancy occurs not make it a controversy If it truly wasn t a controversy then after Moynihan had made the statement nothing more would have happened would it If he had come out and said well we re doing quite well aren t we that would not have sparked the debate and comment that this statement did There s an explanation for the budget cuts if you believe the government but I hope you re not going to claim that because that exists there s been no controversy over those surely It is controversial precisely because there is an explanation for it that boils down to a difference between the public and private school system It was hardly going to be down to anything else was it