Tories caught fiddling with Whackypedia

DIDDY DAVID CAMERON'S CREW in the 'new look' Tory party seem to be spending most of their time playing with the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.

Channel Four hacks used the same software we described here to see what Conservative Central Office was editing in Wikiland.

As you would expect there are some minor corrections to articles on theology and there are changes to legislative subjects and the history of the posh gentleman's club, the Carlton.

However, someone also felt the need to edit to the life of NFL quarterback Jim Finn saying that the reason he was recruited by the Bears was "because he is a bear".

In the midst of trying to calculate what they were going to do about "Brown Bounce" a concerned Tory added the word 'lozenge' to the list of English words without a rhyme.

Someone deleted various unflattering references to David Cameron supporter and now Chairman of the Policy Review, and Chairman of the Conservative Research Department, Oliver Letwin.

It would appear that Conservative Central Office has an interest with the secret society, the Hellfire Club and provided helpful grammatical correction to the profile of the repressive Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.

They also changed David Amess's profile to clarify his involvement in asking a bogus question in Parliament about the fictional drug 'cake' in the satirical programme Brass Eye in 1999. For some reason someone also updated updated the entry on baby warthogs to add the words 'they also smell of poo'.

Channel Four did a similar look at the Labour party and found fewer edits of any note.

Someone has censored a paragraph about Welsh Assembly Member Jane Hutt that called her "the biggest disaster to hit the NHS in Wales's recent history".

Another person amended the article on footballer Neil Lennon with... "and will forever be a Celtic legend - You'll Never Walk Alone."

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