Councillor used pseudonym to praise own work

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Councillor used pseudonym to praise own work

By Mark Pack | Wed 14th January 2009 - 7:52 am

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The headline on The Independent‘s story about Labour councillor Ben Grower in Bournemouth is fairly self-explanatory. More details over on their site. Ben Grower is, though, a mere amateur comapred with the former Labour leader of Swansea council, Lawrence Bailey, who managed 253 fake letters just over a year ago.

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5 Comments

James Graham 14th Jan '09 - 12:23am

Be fair. If you were called Ben Grower, wouldn’t you use a pseudonym?
Letters From A Tory 14th Jan '09 - 9:49am

This kind of behaviour makes Jacqui Smith getting her husband and friends to write letters to local newspapers telling us how wonderful she is look positively amateurish.
James Graham 14th Jan '09 - 9:59am

Er, a production by an amateur dramatics society in which the male lead’s beard keeps falling off and the female lead can’t remember any of her lines would make Jacqui Smith’s letter writing campaigns look positively amateurish. 🙂
markie 14th Jan '09 - 10:37am

off-topic, anyone else read this via rss/bloglines usually and lost the feed in the last week?

I’ve tried un- and re-subscribing but without success.
Mark Pack 14th Jan '09 - 6:01pm

I’ve found bloglines pretty ropey for the last couple of days, so I think it may be an issue with them rather than with this particular feed.