Scumbags and Porkies
Paul Waugh has the current story as told to the fairies by @DavidWrightMP. My Interpretation is at the bottom
While we’re on the subject, it’s worth pointing out that Wright has put out a statement revealing that his laptop was stolen before Christmas.
“My Twitter account has been hacked into and changed. This is not the first time I have been the victim of a cyber attack: two years ago a fake website was set up purporting to be me and we had to have it taken down and my laptop was stolen before Christmas from the House of Commons. I have demanded that Twitter provide me with the identity of whoever has inputted into my site. I will make a further statement when that information is available and I will be seeking a meeting with Ministers to discuss the
general protection of blog sites.”Yet Wright also gave a new bit of info on the row when he talked to the Guardian’s Andy Sparrow yesterday.
He claims he originally sent out a Twitter message saying: “IvenevervotedTory because you can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig and they would ruin Britain.”
Subsequently a second version of the message, containing the phrase “scum-sucking”, was sent out under his name, Wright claimed. Then both messages were taken down by some mysterious third party.
Unfortunately, while the second message is in the archive, the original is nowhere to be found. Strange that…
UPDATE: Shadow Treasury minister Greg Hands says:
“It’s bad enough that one of Gordon Brown’s Ministers is using the language of the gutter to score cheap political points at the expense of Tory supporters. Then we discover the taxpayer is footing the bill for Ministers’ smears. It beggars belief.”
So to have his Tweet spoofed, the “criminal” would have,
- Nicked his portable
- Decrypted his password (the tweet was sent from a mobile using m.twitter.com as the tweet is sent from “mobile web” which means they would have had to enter logon and password to access the twitter account)
- Assume he hasn’t changed all passwords after having his portable nicked (This should be a sacking offence in itself)
- Waited until an appropriate moment. Monitoring all Wright’s Tweets day and night for a suitable one.
- Seen Wright’s original tweet without the scumbag reference.
- Immediately deleted the tweet and sent the “faked” one.
- Ensured original tweet not logged anywhere or seen anywhere by anyone apart from by the “criminal” (unbelievable timing)
- Somehow got Wright to tweet about the original tweet not long after with the “upset Tories” Tweet again from “Mobile Web” as described above.
- Of course it is just about possible someone hooked into his mobile phone and changed the tweet on the fly, Maybe some Mossad agents on false passports thought this would be a good way of wasting time and money.
Stretching the believable is one way of describing this. Most other would involve pigs in the form of porkies.









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