Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times

12:56pm Mon August 9th

Bloggers had great fun gloating over the total failure (and subsequent deletion) of the government’s Spending Challenge Facebook page. Scrapbook was thus thrilled to see the star of Can this goat get more followers than HM Treasury Spending Challenge? cement its position as British politics’ most successful farm animal with an appearance in the Sunday Times’ Atticus diary column yesterday:

At least the full Spending Challenge website had more, erm, activity.

By Political Scrapbook on August 9, 2010 at 12:10 pm
New post –> Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times http://is.gd/e9W4S #votegoat
By Charlotte Stamper on August 9, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Ha. RT @psbook Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times. http://is.gd/e9W4S #votegoat
By Ben Furber on August 9, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Excellent. RT @psbook: New post –> Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times http://is.gd/e9W4S #votegoat
By Grant Blowers on August 9, 2010 at 12:27 pm
RT @psbook New post –> Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times http://is.gd/e9W4S #votegoat
By Other TaxPayers Alli on August 9, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Go, Gideon! RT @psbook New post –> Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times http://is.gd/e9W4S #votegoat
By sunny hundal on August 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm
RT @psbook: Our Facebook goat makes appearance in the Sunday Times! http://bit.ly/bUCgD5
By Mohammed M Ahmed on August 9, 2010 at 12:59 pm
RT @psbook: Facebook goat makes appearance in Sunday Times # http://bit.ly/bUCgD5
By Robinhood campaign launches parody of Coalition’s ‘Spending Challenge’ | Liberal Conspiracy on August 9, 2010 at 5:32 pm
[...] weekend the Spending Challenge site also came in for ridicule in the Sunday Times, which covered the story of Gideon the Goat being more popular on Facebook than their own [...]