Three contenders this evening.
One (to be expected) Mad Nad who can't get her head around the idea that someone can be culturally and ethnically Jewish without being a practising Jew - in this case Evan Harris, whom she has been calling Doctor Death again, until pulled up on the Nazi connotations, and how they might be extra distasteful to a Jew. She wouldn't have it, and characteristically got pretty nasty - see Twitter exchange in her own thread.

The other, Chris Grayling. Now I know he looks as thick as a stone bridge and as a dense as a poor man's sandwich, but he's excelled himself.
He claimed that his email account had been 'hacked by communists'. Turns out someone he didn't know cc'd him into an email to Tescos complaining about workfare. He thought it meant the email had come from him, so I'm not sure what he thinks 'recipients' means.

In another incident Bad Boy Billy Haig spoke at a public meeting against the cuts to the NHS in his constituency. Having voted for them twice in the House... God knows if the people of Harrogate (not the sharpest knives in the Dales according to my son's pa-in-law who hails from Wensleydale) believe a word of it. He reckons they are so conditioned to vote Tory they'd cut their own cocks off if told to in a plummy accent.

This is the ruling party in our democracy.

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I have a colleague who simply doesn't grasp the idea of copying people into emails. Said colleague also has a bizarre habit of forwarding everything on rather than clicking reply. I end up with pages and pages of dialogue between them and third parties appended to the end of single sentence messages. Gleaned a fair bit of confidential info from scrolling down the page though!

That's pretty common in the civil service - it maintains the 'paper trail'. But it's sodding annoying.
But it's 2012 - how can Grayling not understand a CC? He has probably never sent or received his own emails, of course, because he has people for that. And guess who's paying?

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This person is not leaving a paper trail, they're just a bit of a ninny.

Yeah. I have friends like that. I want to email them that I know what I wrote to them so they don't have to send it back to me, but they'd only include it in their reply.

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That's the one.

This person would be mortified if they knew that I've seen some of their comments. In fairness they also need to keep their work email for work and have another one for personal use.

A bit like when people send Word documents with comments and corrections visible...

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Or the read-only .pdf file which they want you to edit.

Oooh I know, I know <said in best Sybil Fawlty impersonation>

I design and produce magazines and one client prepared some copy in Word, printed it out, scanned it, imported it into Acrobat and then sent me a pdf.

Isn't it about time for a new Frig n' Bassett ?

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FFS why?
It's a lot more work for them quite apart from being useless.
Batshit.

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That subtle admixture of the absurd and the surreally plausible...

Obviously this won't make as big of an impression as the original story where he'd been hacked by radical activists. People like my in-laws, nice enough (sometimes ) people, but faithful Mail-readers despite being solidly working class, will probably not get revised story. Even if it's widely broadcast, unless it is totally presented in a way that makes Grayling look like an idiot to people, especially to people who might have little experience with computers.

Because everything is presented in such a way to shock or scare, even sometimes in the broadcast media, it takes a lot more to overcome that impression. When I first heard about the "hacking", I was disappointed that someone would risk perception over a prank.

As much as Grayling looks like an idiot, his ineptitude is working for the Tories' advantage in this case.

I produce the local CLP newsletter as pdf for mailing (cost efficient, easy). Every month we get requests for printed copies. By email.

It costs £9 a copy, and one person asked for 20 to hand out to her neighbours...

(It also looks like shit on paper because it's designed to be viewed on screen).

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I have always said that my job would be brilliant if it wasn't for clients and printers. Don't get me started on printers.

Go on, Uncle Daley. Tell us a story about printers.

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