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Sunday 7 April 2013

Is This is What Political Journalism has been Reduced to?

It was this story in Daily Mirror last week which reinforced why I do not buy any national newspapers and despise the Daily Mirror. God I hate the Daily Mirror. 

The Mirror are having a pop at George Osborne because someone has sent them a picture of Osborne’s car parked in a disabled space. Perfect. Evil chancellor not only fleeces the disabled, but he steals their parking spaces too except:

1. It is a police car.
2. Osborne isn’t driving it
3. A police security officer is driving it
4. He parked it there after dropping Osborne off to buy a McDonald’s.
Now, apart from George Osborne not being too posh to get a McDonald's from a service station! I wonder how many people who sit in a passenger seat get out of a car when it is parked and think to themselves: “Hang on, I must just check if the driver of the car has parked in a disabled space.” Exactly, no one. 

Ed Balls, revelling in the aftermath of the story rather conveniently forgot that he was fined during the 2010 general election campaign driving whilst on his mobile phone. With Ed Balls being a government law maker and breaker at the time, guess what page this story featured in the Daily Mirror? It didn't!

This story would have been the equivalent of a local journalist, hypothetically for example, saying all my neighbours black sack waste in my block of flats was mine after I have publicly said that, one average, I have only one bag of black sack waste. It would be nonsense.

Going back to the story and Ed Balls driving misdemeanours, Ed Ball was spotted this week going into a Holiday Inn for a driving awareness course after being clocked doing 56mph in a 50mph zone on a motorway to avoid 3 penalty points on his license. Still, I suppose the only saving grace is that he did not ask his wife to take the points!

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