When asked as to his “reading material of choice” the new Tory MP for Salisbury John Glen tells ConservativeHome:
“I read most of the main political blogs each day and all papers – especially the Daily Mail headlines in order to anticipate some of my email correspondence for the week ahead!”
This reminds Scrapbook of an anecdote related by a man who worked responding to complaints at the BBC. He was exasperated by the preponderance of letters that were variations on a theme of: ”I didn’t see [programme name] but I read in [the Mail or Express] that it was absolutely disgraceful!”
The staffer confessed he had drafted (but not dispatched) several responses which read:
“Well I didn’t read your letter but I heard that it was complete b****cks”.
