Comments on Five Chinese Crackers: Colour me suspicious

Originally done by the Standard, I believe: http:...

2009-12-15T13:38:48.786Z

Originally done by the Standard, I believe:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23607854-revealed-the-26m-council-house-family.do

All rather odd.

Thanks for that Romanhousing. i think I'll ha...

2009-12-15T09:44:22.715Z

Thanks for that Romanhousing. i think I'll have to follow this one up.

I've been reading these tab-watch blogs too lo...

2009-12-14T18:47:16.438Z

I've been reading these tab-watch blogs too long. When I first read "Single mother of eight living in a £2.6m mansion - so much for Labour's housing benefit crackdown", my first thought was "It doesn't specifically mention benefits. She might well be paying for it out of her own pocket".

What makes the Mail story worse -and yes, it can g...

2009-12-14T18:39:28.724Z

What makes the Mail story worse -and yes, it can get worse - is that they have been here before. With exactly the same story and the same photo of the woman and kids.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1101248/Its-great-says-mother-living-2-6m-townhouse-paid-you.html

So, almost a year on and rehash a story, add a year onto her age, tell us that it is now in Kensington not Notting Hill (posher area y'see) and there you go. 900+ comments later...

This has made me bloody mad today. Gutter journalism at its worst.

would make a bit of a rubbish comic if I'd bee...

2009-12-14T16:42:18.888Z

would make a bit of a rubbish comic if I'd been bitten by a radioactive tabloid reporter:

"By day, he's a mild mannered blogger, but when darkness descends, he becomes...a fucking wanker!

There's a Marvel comic plot here somewhere...

2009-12-14T16:15:30.035Z

There's a Marvel comic plot here somewhere...

"Crackers sense" you weren't bitten ...

2009-12-14T15:34:31.217Z

"Crackers sense" you weren't bitten by a radioactive tabloid reporter were you?

Yes it's odd that the headline isn't "Tory council house Muslim family in £2.6m mansion" sub-headline "and it's all Labour's fault" that might have made some people think a bit and we can't have thinking Daily Mail readers; who knows what they might do.