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.
As seen on Scrapbook and elsewhere, Left wing bloggers have ridiculed the coalition’s “Cuts…”, ahem sorry, “Spending Challenge” Facebook page by creating a goat-themed alternative with nearly ten times as many followers.
The government’s initiative was launched with an absolutely cringeworthy webchat between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a fawning David Cameron. In the interests of political impartiality, activist John Wood has since approached Facebook, who cleared time in Zuckerberg’s diary to speak to the left’s favourite goat:
What’s so wrong with the nanny* state?
*Geddit? Goat? Nanny goat? [you're fired - ed].
