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Over Hill and Dale: Westminster "Leak" Scandal
Iain Dale is pleased as punch that he's the subject of "a leak investigation" and has triggered a Guardian Unlimited non-story about a scarcely controversial planning application.
In normal times one could find the current applications for 29 Connaught Square, Westminster HERE. But thanks to Mr Dale the plug has been pulled and the particulars are not accessible. LOL can tell you that the property registers 81 folders of bumph since 1990 with 18 of these involving the adaptations Mr Dale details submitted on 13 March and to be determined on 3 May.
What a triumph! Public information pulled thanks to buffoonery. Perhaps Westminster Council could calculate the cost of all this and any postponements of process for themselves, the occupants, and their agents ... and pass the invoice to Mr Dale.
This could be amusing for the occupants who are of course Tony Blair, Cherie Booth and menage.
UPDATE: The person who tipped Dale off about the public domain info has outed themselves and also states that the Westminster Council computer is poorly. I may have overestimated repercussions of silly ass's mischief.
THEN AGAIN: Never believe anything on a Tory blog. All the other applications are available to peruse.
10 comments:
You really are a prat of the first order.
Thanks Iain! Do you have an argument to go with that assertion? Or some research perhaps?
That would be a change.
Just gratuitous abuse is it? If I'm wrong explain please. Was this stuff not in the public domain?
Or did you get it from one of the 25 or so neighbours that would get access?
It wasn't leaked was it? And you're an ass!
There you go, I'm a quick learner.
Congratulations, you do have the ability to hit the bullseye.
What's all this attack on the dead tree press and then chuffed when they get a mention?
Cheers John, Iain seems have gotten it all wrong about his own party's Euro selections also, and there was Dorries, and so on. Still, you never know he may pull a rabbit out of the hat yet. Best w CP
Spot on, Chris.
I'm afraid my comment to ID was less relevant.
Given that Iain has given you the prat of the first order award, I think it is only fitting that I give you the Iain Dale Spits Out His Dummy Award...
Cheers John. Though I think Alex Hilton has perhaps got to keep that one having won it every month for a whole year.
Please be assured Mr Paul that thanks to your enquiry we have now moved Mr Dale's credibility rating to one of a possible five stars and will treat every story on his blog with the caution normally associated with tittle tattle over the water cooler, text messages from pre-teens or graffiti on the newsdesk about the editor's wandering trousers.
Every day is April Fools Day for this one, sorry to say. We've also warned the Telegraph to drop him at the first opportunity.
Any gentlefolk wishing to consult Mrs C Booth's charming plans can drop into our offices and peruse a copy. We tend to agree with the Planning Officers that on balance the proposals are improvements in the listed building.
Why haven't they taken down the story from yesterday, the Guardian. Mr Scott would be turning in his grave. Full of inaccuracies.
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