THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008
Icelandic Terrorrists Identified
Those Icelandic fundamentalists even have their own propaganda site. Gordon saved us from the Icelandic terror threat by cutting off their funding and freezing their assets. Err, except now he intends to lend them £3 billion of British taxpayers money... doh!Government of the Spinners, by the Spinners for the Spinners
click to enlargeThe House of Lords Communications Committee had the head of the civil service Gus O'Donnell in for a hearing yesterday (video). One of the reasons the chief mandarin gave for the doubling in "communications staff" over the last decade was that there were mounting demands on government communication officers to deal with the increase in political blogs and the growing number of journalists.
"Be very careful what these numbers mean. [There are] 3,000 journalists in the BBC alone - that's just one institution," said O'Donnell, "You could easily turn the statistics round and ask 'why has it gone up so little'." Well he could ask that, but taxpayers would ask the opposite.
Guido has in four years only twice been contacted by a government spin merchant unprompted.
"Be very careful what these numbers mean. [There are] 3,000 journalists in the BBC alone - that's just one institution," said O'Donnell, "You could easily turn the statistics round and ask 'why has it gone up so little'." Well he could ask that, but taxpayers would ask the opposite.
Guido has in four years only twice been contacted by a government spin merchant unprompted.
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