Conservative MP Francis Maude today criticised Gordon Brown for not having an email address on the 10 Downing Stret website: “Gordon Brown is spending taxpayers’ money on the latest digital gimmicks, from Twitter to Flickr, but can’t be bothered to give out a simple email address”.
Fair enough. But you’d have thought he would give out an email address on the contact page for his own website. Otherwise someone unkind person might mutter things about double standards etc, especially as his website is paid for by taxpayers’ money too. But you’d have thought wrong. (Though you can find his email address if you look really, really, really hard. And download a pdf. And go to the very last page.)
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God, that’s a bit desperate, isn’t it, even for you! He’s got a normal parliamentary email address, just like any other MP, apart from our Prime Minister, natch.
And he has a contact form on his website here http://www.francismaude.com/record.jsp?type=requiredPage&ID=96&contact=contact
Stuck for a story?!
To be fair, Iain, that is rather specialist knowledge about his parliamentary email address. A regular constituent who visits his website, as distinct from the parliament.uk site, ought to be able to quickly locate an email address. It’s an easy fix.
Consider it a brief diary-style story Iain. It is a bit silly of him to complain of someone else not having an email address on their website when he hides his own so deeply on his site. But for something more serious, let’s talk lentils.
I saw this in a feed. When I saw the headline my first thought was “I bet Mark Pack wrote this”. I was proven to be right 🙂
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But did you also guess there would be a reference to “Twitter” in the post?
PS
Am I the only one who has clicked on the broken link about “talking lentils”?
Really a non-story. Don’t forget that neither GB nor FM probably manage their websites or know what’s on them – some gopher probably deals with it all. So this is really a “my gopher does a better job on my website than your gopher”-type story. Interesting? Non!