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September 3, 2012 11:14 am

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Tory Minister Grant Shapps set up a company under a false name. That company developed software that violates Google’s code to generate online revenue, with Shapps (as his alter-ego Michael Green) arguing that purchasers ”make $20,000 in 20 days guaranteed or your money back”.

That doesn’t sound like a scam at all. Not even a little bit. Not at all…

That company has also advocated purchasing software called “TweetAdder” – which follows and unfollows people automatically on Twitter. Curiously, Political Scrapbook asked back in July is Shapps used such software – he denied it.

But the aspect of the story that appealed to me most – on top of everything else – was that the company HowToCorp (which, to be clear, Shapps no longer holds shares in, having transferred his shares to his wife in 2008) – releases self help toolkits – most notably, one called “How To Bounce Back From Recession”.

The e-book is certainly enlightening. It decries the views of “experts” on getting out of recession, so George Osborne should love it, although the strapline is “Take responsibility. Take charge”, which isn;t something the Tories have been massively keen on doing.

You can read the whole thing yourself here – but I wouldn’t recommend it…

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  • trotters1957

    “Shapps no longer holds shares in, having transferred his shares to his wife in 2008″Looks like tax avoidance to me, “income shifting”.

  • http://twitter.com/nashienet Steven Nash

    http://www.warriorforum.com/internet-marketing-product-reviews-ratings/76184-forthcoming-google-1st-product.html#post711364

    “I’m not going to discuss the author’s private life here but I think I can guarantee to you that Michael has far too much to lose in the real world to risk it for the sake of a dodgy IM product. IM is only a sideline for him – though he makes much more money from it than I do ;-) ”

  • AlanGiles

    “Grant Shapps set up a company under a false name.”

    Well, I suppose I have to tread carefully talking  about people who use more than one name!

    That said, it is understandable that “Shirley Crabtree” became “Big Daddy”, Or that Harry H. Corbett   (Harold Steptoe) added the “H” so that he would not be confused with the Harry Corbett who manipulated “Sooty”. And certainly “Diana Fluck” was wise to change her name when she joined the Rank Organisation to “Diana Dors”, but these people are in entertainment.

    I know some politicians THINK they are entertainers, but aliases should be the preserve of those sort of people: actors, singers and career criminls. To wish to hide your true identity, when you are involved in public life as a politician, for whatever reason as Shapps has done, must make one very dubious about their motives. More and more it seems politics equals bogosity.

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