The News of the Screws, in their campaign to insert former editor, Andy Coulson into the press office at Downing Street, last Sunday ran page after page of noisy headlines and knocking copy on Mr Brown and Nick ‘Wunderkind’ Clegg. They put the boot into leading LibDem, St Vince Cable, too, the only MP to predict the crash of ’08.
No expense was spared in their search for documents that might damage him. They’d gathered a pile of detail about Vince’s bills from power, water and phone service providers. In a fatuous attempt to show Cable’s incompetence, they listed details of late payment charges and final demands for bills which had all been paid.
They suggest that all this information is visible in his parliamentary expenses claims, but it isn’t. They must have acquired it by some other underhand means, using, perhaps, old fashioned binologists – investigators who rummage through dustbins for discarded letters; or blaggers who get the information directly from the companies’ own data records, which is a crime that may soon be punishable by a custodial sentence.

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