I always enjoy receiving an
occasional email from my former MP Zac Goldsmith. He has managed to
maintain seamless email communication through various guises - Cameroon Liberal
Tory, May loyalist Tory, Independent airport campaigner and finally 'Strong and
Stable' Brexit Tory - without appearing to trouble those pesky data protection
rules at any time. (Or indeed his own sense of self awareness).
But regardless of this (no doubt
Brussels inspired) pettyfogging data protection bureaucracy - I was intrigued
to read his claim that: "Here in Canbury, I have worked hard for
local residents over the past six years... I campaigned with the Council to
deliver free 30 minute parking to help our small shops..."
The thing is there aren't any 30
minute free parking zones in Canbury.
Now I'm sure this is an honest
mistake and not deliberate misinformation on Goldsmith junior's behalf.
Because someone once said, "Deliberately misinforming people is worse than
anything that happened in the expenses scandal, because it goes to the heart of
democracy. When you're prepared to trick people two weeks before they go to the
polls, that is the very lowest kind of politics."
That someone being er... Zac
Goldsmith.
