Comments on: How local is your MEP?

By: Conservative Party in Birmingham | Tom Watson MP

Conservative Party in Birmingham | Tom Watson MP — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:12:30 +0000

[...] you would have thought that West Midlands Conservatives would learn from passed [...]

By: Glynis Jones

Glynis Jones — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:02:23 +0000

Hi Tom, I hope that you are going to oppose the adding of any more fluoride to our water? It is high time this poison was removed and this government stop mass medicating us. If kids have rotten teeth then parents should stop them having sweets, not the government make us drink water that causes Hypothyroid, Dementia, Brittle bones, infertiity and cancer!!

By: Introducing Top of the Blogs: The Dirty Dozen #1 | Liberal Democrat Voice

Introducing Top of the Blogs: The Dirty Dozen #1 | Liberal Democrat Voice — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:58:48 +0000

[...] Tom Watson has some fun at the expense of the West Midlands Conservative MEPs. They illustrated their website with a picture of Birmingham. Fair enough, you will say. But this was Birmingham, Alabama. [...]

By: Kevin Rapley

Kevin Rapley — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:18:36 +0000

“It is indeed common courtesy to credit your source. That is why I thanked Gareth from Walsall when he rang me about it yesterday. Goodnight to you sir.”

I would like to of seen an amendment to the blog post creditng Gareth in the story and linking back to his posting, several stories have emerged where you have taken full credit. I feel more could be done here to rectify this.

By: Beautiful Birmingham « Birmingham University Labour Students

Beautiful Birmingham « Birmingham University Labour Students — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:18:01 +0000

[...] Posted by brigidjones on 10 January, 2008 Â Am loving this story from Tom Watson, who spotted that insteadÂ of their own city, Tory MEPs had displayed their wealth of local knowledge by illustrating their website with pictures of Birmingham, Alabama. [...]

By: Alfie the OK

Alfie the OK — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:47:37 +0000

So they got Birmingham, Alabama mixed up with Birmingham, England…. Big deal.

It is well known that politicians are rubbish at geography. Take Gordon Brown for instance. He can’t tell the difference between Britain and England.

By: Wonko’s World » Blog Archive » Which is worse?

Wonko’s World » Blog Archive » Which is worse? — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:43:34 +0000

[...] Tom Watson, the Labour MP for Aston in Birmingham (thatâ€™s Birmingham, England, not Alabama) makes political capital out of it on his blog and ends up in all the papers today being credited with the discovery. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:35:10 +0000

It is indeed common courtesy to credit your source. That is why I thanked Gareth from Walsall when he rang me about it yesterday. Goodnight to you sir.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:25:04 +0000

Dear Tom, You forgot to credit your constituent over at West Brom Blog who first made this public on the 3rd. The local press seems to have got the impression that it's your own discovery for some reason. Did you send a press release claiming that you'd made the discovery or did they just pick it up off your blog? When you get a story from another blog, it's only common courtesy that you credit the source.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:57:01 +0000

I think it more likely that the MEP’s employed someone to write the website. Do you honestly expect they would spend many hours making a website? Do you honestly think they have the technical knowledge?

Come on Tom – even someone as technically savvy as yourself employed DRD to design (and most likely install) your website. Do you honestly expect anything different from our ’stiff as a rake’ friends over in Birmingham?