In trouble again after being accused of editing his own Wiki page to remove embarrassing references to, among other things, the whole "Michael Green" shenanigans, as well as editing other politician's entries to make them less flattering to their subjects.

A Labour candidate has written to the DPP asking for an investigation after his Wiki entry was edited unfavourably by "Contribsx", the account linked to Shapps, which he denies doing.

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Shapps seems to be the type of huckster who swears blind he is innocent and threatens all kinds of action against those he accuses of smearing him...until the evidence is incontrovertible and he can't get away with lying any more, when he has to make an embarrassing climbdown.

Witness the case of Shapps' constituent, Dean Archer, who he forced to write a humiliating retraction and apology on facebook after accusing Shapps of lying about still working under the Michael Green alias after being elected to parliament.

Shapps had vehemently denied having two jobs at the same time, threatening legal action against anyone who suggested he had, right up until a an audio recording emerged showed he had been lying all along, upon which he simply said he had "over-firmly" denied the accusation: [Link]

He is becoming an embarrassment to the Tories and a distraction from the election campaign. Whoever forms the next government, I can see Mr Shapps/Green/Whoever he is being quietly dropped from front-line politics.

What do fellow HOLers reckon?

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
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I loathe Grant Shapps.

The guy is a total liar, plain and simple. I think he is so far gone that he believes 'truth' is whatever he wants it to be.

Put him and Labour's Chris Leslie in a sack and drown them and you'd be doing the world a favour.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

Leslie is IMO the worst kind of politician. Mendacious, slippery and would rip off his own children if he thought it would get him into power.

In the slimeball stakes not quite as bad as Shapps, but comes close.

...we must expand...get more pupils...so that the knowledge will spread...

Shapps is a Jeffrey Archer for the 21st C. Does the same fate await him?

I used to be immortal

Reminds me of Jonathan Aitken and his "sword of truth" too. I think Wandsworth nick would be a suitable place for Shapps/Green/Contribsx to end up

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
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Dean Archer was recently interviewed on LBC regarding this incident.
Having sought legal advice after the initial threat of court action from Shapps, Mr Archer was told he could potentially lose everything. Despite his knowledge of the facts, taking on a man in a position of power was obviously a huge gamble for him, hence the apology.
Having been proved right, Mr Archer was asked what he would now do. I wanted him to say he was going to sue the f'kin arse off of Shapps but he never really gave an answer tbh. It seemed he was happy to be proved right and wanted an end to the situation. Fairplay.
I'm fairly certain I wasn't the only listener though who wanted him to say he'd screw the f'kin arse out of Shapps!
He should not only be relieved of his job but should be jailed imo, due to the position he holds. But that'll never happen due to many of his friends also being 'right honourable gentlemen'.
Fk the lot of them.