Danbert Posted 22 September, 2012 Share Posted 22 September, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/21/grant-shapps-posed-web-guru Grant Shapps, the Conservative party chairman, posed as a "multimillion-dollar web marketer" named Michael Green who spoke to reveal the secrets of his trade at a $3,000-a-head internet conference in Las Vegas while he was the Tory party candidate for Welwyn Hatfield. The pictorial evidence of his double life, revealed online by a fellow conference speaker, will pile pressure on Shapps to explain his links to a network of websites which have been blocked by Google for breaching its rules on copyright infringement and encouraging customers to plagiarise content. But at the age of 35, Shapps claimed already to have established "the world's largest internet marketing forum". A few years later while a member of the shadow cabinet, he also had time to run phone lines where for $297 an hour Green would give tips to aspiring entrepreneurs. And so it goes on... My only little contribution: This was his comment to the Wikipedia editor when he was caught using multiple accounts (allegedly) to airbrush his profile: "Earle, you did notice that all of these accounts stopped editing the Grant Shapps biography (or anything else) more than two years ago, right? And that much of the material they removed was biased, poorly sourced and in violation of Wikipedia's own policies? Nobody else cared about it. What's a biography subject to do then?" Clearly he has statesman potential... Can any nutjobs dig up some real dirt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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