This was bound to happen eventually.
AW(i'WoD') readers who are early risers or quick on the trigger can see this before it's corrected
For the rest of you, I promise that the picture below isn't a fake ...
We have been pointing out the risk of confusion for years. Alan "Yes I Am The Minister[1]" Johnson is actually quite a handsome bloke and a snappy dresser, so he has double the reason to be annoyed.
[1] "Secretary of State" actually; some ministers can be surprisingly arsey about this.
Update: the byline link goes to Alan NTM's CiF profile page, meaning that Alan the minister appears to be endorsing all manner of what have you!
For the rest of you, I promise that the picture below isn't a fake ...
We have been pointing out the risk of confusion for years. Alan "Yes I Am The Minister[1]" Johnson is actually quite a handsome bloke and a snappy dresser, so he has double the reason to be annoyed.
[1] "Secretary of State" actually; some ministers can be surprisingly arsey about this.
Update: the byline link goes to Alan NTM's CiF profile page, meaning that Alan the minister appears to be endorsing all manner of what have you!
posted by The Rioja Kid at 11/26/2008 08:00:00 AM
9 Comments:
It's still there (9:40 UK time).
I feel a bit let down here. We explained, warned, even held an online workshop (discussing among other things what would happen if Alan TM Johnson became Alan TPM Johnson or Alan TDPM JOhnson). What more could we have done?
I think Alan NTM Johnson would have launched a manifesto to publicise the problem. Maybe we should taket this desperate but necessary step?
1030 and it's been corrected.
Alan "Yes I Am The Minister[1]" Johnson is actually quite a handsome bloke
Well, if you like that "PE teacher recently promoted to deputy head" look.
OT I know, and some of you may be aware of the deception already, but there was an article on CIF today which made an astonishing claim about our old friend Dennis Macshane.
Supposedly during the Afghan War Macshane wrote a characteristically belligerent article in support of the conflict. In it he made various dubious claims about levels of support for the war amongst the Muslim community in the UK. However knowing that the article would carry more conviction if it appeared to be written by a Muslim he trawled Parliament looking for a convenient stooge who would be prepared to put his signature to it. Lord Ahmed gave him the brush-off but Khalid Mahmood was prepared to sign.
Although I think of myself as a pretty cynical person, especially in regard to political lying, I still found this a rather shocking and tawdry tale.
Well older viewers will recall that Macshane had to resign as president of the NUJ back in the early 80s after, bizarrely, ringing up a radio talk programme and pretending to be somebody else. So he is new stranger to hamfisted subterfuge.
the "hamfisted sockpuppet" has a nice symmetrical ring to it
Here is the link to that CiF article.
Furthermore. some of MacShane's colleagues on his antisemitism parliamentary enquiry didn't quite seem to know the meaning of what they were saying.
Moussaka man
Anyone noticed that Nick seems to have abandoned his website and not updated it for weeks, despite writing new pieces? Surely he's not too drunk to have a few clicks of the mouse?
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