• Grant Shapps plays crumhorn for Lordi.
• Grant Shapps once ordered three Shredded Wheat. But he only ate two of them and sold the third on eBay for a profit
• All the Grant Shappses, every single one, are Pod People from the planet Zog. Nobody knows their real agenda
• The Grant Shappses will be one of the monsters in the next season of Dr Who

All of these are true. It says so on Twitter.

Well, it turns out Tory minister Grant Shapps is behind many Splogs.

Yes, a government minister is a spammer and snake-oil “Internet Marketing Guru”, using the false name of “Michael Green”.

If you run a business under a false name, the default assumption has to be that you’re doing something dodgy, doesn’t it?

Two things immediately come to mind. Firstly, the whole thing is a perfect metaphor for the moral bankrupcy of the Conservative party. Secondly, it shows the establishment’s double standards when it comes to intellectual property. We have a government prepared to extradite Richard O’Dwyer to the US to face a lengthy prison term for copyright violation “because downloading a movie without paying is just like stealing a car”. Then we have a minister whose whole business is founded on theft of other people’s intellectual property. Seems that different standards apply if it’s the “little people” doing the stealing rather than being stolen from.