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Diane Abbott's expenses exposed by crowd publishing 6

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Malcolm Coles

While the Guardian has been crowd sourcing the investigation of MPs' expenses, the people of Hackney have taken to crowd publishing the expenses of local MP Diane Abbott.

Here's a photo of a newspaper billboard for the Hackney Gazette, taken on Stoke Newington High Street. As well as giving a breakdown of her expenses, there's some commentary at the bottom.

Diane Abbott's expenses published the old fashioned way

Who needs online databases? The figures are all correct. Note also the correct use of the apostrophe, which is more than most people seem to be able to manage.

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6 Responses to “Diane Abbott's expenses exposed by crowd publishing”

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   BristleKRS says:

   June 26, 2009 at 7:38 pm

   Shame about her name, 'stationery' and 'communication' though!

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   Malcolm Coles says:

   June 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm

   Good points!

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   Alison Battisby says:

   July 2, 2009 at 11:48 am

   Haha that's hilarious! Would love to post a link on my new Dalston website if that's ok?

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   drew3000 says:

   February 18, 2010 at 4:50 pm

   So she's actually not spending that badly from the looks of it. Pretty moderate, actually.

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