Hand the buggers a shotgun and they might aim at us peasants but they’re bound to hit one of their own from time to time.
And so we can look on and laugh at the Labour councillor who has had his mobile phone calls monitored by officials at Liverpool City Council.
The councillor involved, Joe Anderson, has reported the Council to the Information Commissioner’s Office, which is now investigating.
The reason for the monitoring is neither here nor there, but reports suggest that Mr Anderson is at least in part aggrieved because town hall rules ban officials from looking at councillors’ phone records.
Oh dear, poor love, to think that those nasty officials broke the nice, cosy arrangement giving him protection from the very snooping his government has pushed on the rest of us is just too delicious for words.
Welcome to the real world Mr Anderson, though I doubt somehow whether your experience will result in you campaigning on behalf of David Davis in the near future.
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