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Looks like someone from Conservative Central Office has been editing Nick Griffin's Wikipedia page, says Tim Ireland

Darren Atwater | Tuesday 18 January, 2011 12:52

It appears that someone from Conservative Central Office took some time out of their day to British National Party chairman Nick Griffin’s wikipedia page, removing its reference to Griffin’s childhood membership.

Writer Tim Ireland, in his years-long coverage on the shortcomings of Bedford MP ‘Mad Nad’ Nadine Dorries, discovered this when he set a ‘honeytrap’ for the Central Office to prove that Central Office were aware of Ireland’s reportage. (He emailled Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi , c/o the Party, a link to a very special page of his findings that was not known to the public. When the page was clicked on, he compared the clicker’s IP address with the known IP address of the Conservative Party, and the publicly-available wikipedia history page. See, smart.)

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Full disclosure: over ten years ago, both Tim and I worked for the same company, another.com, in bucolic Kentish Town. It was fun.

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