Tory MP caught in failed sock puppet attempt

[matgb]

This is a little to weird. "Internet expert" and Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps has been caught in an attempt at astroturfing. He claims in an email to Tim at bloggerheads that his YouTube password was 1234, which even Guido isn't buying. Hmm, guessing there's no time to watch Space Balls in Cameron's Conservatives.

Given that he's the guy running the Ealing Southall campaign, we have it in fairly convincing evidence that he's either an idiot or a duplicitous liar. Either way, not going to do Tony Lit's campaign any good.

I promise to leave off the politics for a bit. Maybe. Possibly. But dude! Tory MP with YouTube account messes things up royally, how could I resist?

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Wanna borrow my "tory fuckwits" tag?

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Heeheee!

Mr Shapps does rather seem to have screwed the pooch, doesn't he?

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

But ... but ... but ... oh my god. That is just so thick. Surely if you're going to try and do something like that, at least give it a test-run somewhere else first, just to make sure it isn't going to be too obvious?

Also, I don't think an awful lot of voters have YouTube as their destination of choice for election-related information. Even given the (evidently minimal) amount of effort he's put into this, it's hard to see why it would be considered worth the bother - especially for someone who's supposed to be one of the Tories' leading campaigning experts!