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Showing posts with label Guardian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guardian. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 September 2012

Tory chairman and MP for Welwyn Hatfield Grant Shapps caught whitewashing his Wikipedia page and other technology misdemeanours


Grant Shapps alter ego?

Newly appointed Tory Chairman Grant Shapps has been caught making anonymous changes to his Wikipedia page and breach of the sites rules.  The two main changes were to his education history and much more seriously he removed information about donations from lobbyists related to the work he was doing as shadow housing minister.  Whilst this was ruled to not breach the rules as it is not against the rules to receive donations from companies related to the work you do as a shadow minister it is corrupt and the rules clearly need to be changed. you can see the edits he made here.

However this not the online corrupt practices he has been involved in online. He has been caught pretending to be liberal democrat and posting this "Okay, realistically we’re not going to win though. Especially since the Tories have just received 5 defecting Councillors from Labour. Don’t quite know how they’ve done it, but the Tories have stolen a march on us this time." to a Vince cable video the only problem is he was still signed into his own YouTube account oops. He later claimed that his account was hacked as the password was 1234 which is a complete lie as you can't use a password that short on YouTube. you can read the full story on bloggerheads here.

Finally (not really as he has actually done a lot more but I have to save that for another day) there is guardian article showing that a family company he founded sells software that plagiarises the content of other sites and copies them to websites that attract advertising revenue. Basically the software steals other peoples contact to earn Revenue. Full story on the Guardian.

He's a perfect Conservative Chairman an online scammer, sock puppeteer , liar, idiot (if his 1234 password was true and an idiot for lying about it) plagiariser and evil intergalactic dictator.

Monday, 6 September 2010

Who is the right choice for labour leader?

The Guardian has chosen to support right of centre David Miliband for the labour leadership. Now considering it is the right to far right of centre policies that got Labour kicked out of office does the Guardian really think that David Miliband is the man to regain Labours lost support?

I would not agree he is a self evident career politician -ok they all are but his desire is more obvious than most- who will say anything to get elected. He would most likely be a Tony Blair II not quite the same policies but certainly the same superficial charm on the service but an amoral machine underneath unable to think of people as individuals with their own dreams and desires and completely unable to grasp the reality that these dreams and desires may be different from his own just like his old master Blair. Finally how can the Guardian a supposed liberal paper support fro Labour leadership a man who as foreign secretary spent his time lying about government complicity in torture and defending the Iraq war. Is this really the man they want as Labour leader and presumably future prime minister?