Grant Shapps - Another Lie Uncovered

So the Tories circled the wagons and pretended that their party chairman Grant “Spiv” Shapps had done nothing wrong by claiming not to have used his alias Michael Green after being returned to Parliament in 2005, while in reality he used that name, and carried on a second job, for some time afterwards. He also used the party’s lawyers to threaten a constituent who said something about him that was actually true.

Do not buy a secondhand car fridge from this man

And this morning, Shapps is still in post. That this could prove increasingly untenable to his party has become clear after yet more unfavourable news has come rolling in, not least on the legal front: Dean Archer, the man Shapps threatened with lawyers, is now consulting his own lawyers with a view to taking action on the basis that Shapps owes Archer personal damages. The question is being asked whether Shapps misled his lawyers.

In other words, this is, once again, about Shapps lying, which he did when he claimed not to have used the Michael Green alias and carried on a second job after 2005. That he did use the alias - and shamelessly so - prior to that date has been illustrated by a cheap and tacky presentation obtained by the Mirror, where “Spiv” shows the world his fast cars, his private aircraft, and tells that his MPV has a fridge in it.

The Mirror feature does not cover the period after 2005 - but does give valuable pointers which help connect Shapps’ use of his alias to a much later date. His Get-Rich-Quick toolkit “would make those who bought it ’11 to 22 times more successful than the crowd as a result’ … But he warned punters they would have to move fast because he had taken the ‘difficult decision’ to limit supply to just 250 copies, saying: ‘I will delete the webpage and the mastercopy of this toolkit’”.

With that in mind, consider the spiel described in EzSEO Newsletter #242, where readers are told about “Michael Green’s new product Google 1st”, and that “It promises to show you how you can dominate Google’s top 10”. And then comes the real pearler.

“The fact that Michael is using this on his own business so successfully has lead to a dilemma.  Should he really be releasing this toolkit?  The last thing he wants to do is make these techniques common knowledge so that Google decides to act to block its effectiveness. Because of that, Michael told me that he may be withdrawing the product from sale as soon as sales pass a certain figure (he didn’t tell me what that figure was)”.

When did this date from? Further down the newsletter, it talks of “one of my top picks for 2009 so far”. The link to Google 1st routes to the now dead howtocorppartner.com - HowTo Corp was Shapps’ company. This leads to one conclusion, and one alone - that Shapps was still pretending to be Michael Green, and still pushing his cheap and nasty get-rich-quick schemes, four years after becoming an MP, despite pretending otherwise.

Still looking to circle the wagons and spin your way out of this one, Tory Party faithful? Your chairman is a liability. This will only get worse. No pressure, then.