Citizen Journalism
Fancy yourself as a journalist?
It seems that in the run-up to the next election, we have one more shot at sweeping some of the more egregious villains from our Parliament, as a slew of new expense information has been released. It will probably be a hard slog for any one person to analyse the shameful secrets of 646 potential criminals and so I’d like to offer all of our readers the chance to have their say and have a root around in their own MP’s expenses for any signs of misbehaviour.
If your eagle eye spots anything untoward (i.e., something you think is unacceptable or that no reasonable employer might allow — no matter how large or small the amount) then let me know at thaddeus.j.wilson @ googlemail.com. You can write it up fully if you feel that way inclined (and vent your spleen too!) or just identify the naughty MP, the nature of the claim and the document in which it can be found.
Also please let me know under what name you want the report to be listed or if you want to report anonymously – if you don’t specify this, I will be using the name implied by the email address.
Happy hunting!
NEWSFLASH!
That gentlemanly newshound, Paul Waugh has already identified the following:
- Tory-turned-Labour quisling Quentin Davies has asked for £20,000 for his bell tower
- Dr JG Brown has spent rather a lot of time chatting to someone in Canterbury
- Crispin Blunt had his waterwheel repaired
- Gerald Howarth threw a hissy fit because they wouldn’t pay for his Sky
I’m sure there will be a ready supply of annoyance for the finding …
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December 10, 2009 at 18:13 -
I’ve been following you as the new Anna for a while now, TJ. I thought she would be a hard act to follow, and said so at the time.
Much to my delight, you’ve done very well – congratulations! I’ll do my best with your little search, but can’t promise anything; our local ZaNuLabour place-man is more slippery than an eel.
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December 10, 2009 at 18:27 -
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December 11, 2009 at 14:20 -
Today’s papers suggest that citizen journalist (rather than journalism) has decided to give the 648 a good hiding. Unfortunately, it is the usual Mirror-targets-Cameron-and-Sun-targets-Jowell stuff.
I’m worried about all this now; we may be about to slip into the Vietnam News Syndrome. That is, ‘Oh look, there’s a woman on fire and oh look there’s a hollowed-out shell of a kid and pass the chicken breast someone’. It is so easy to get inured to the idea that everything in the system is rotten….but so hard to stop thinking that way about everyone and everything.
Worried of Lyme Regis x -
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December 11, 2009 at 18:50 -
At least in the jungle the slippery and distasteful insects are disposed of.
Billy of Butlins.
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