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| Joy Yates, Editor, Hartlepool Mail |
In a
previous blog I wrote about the breathtaking hypocrisy of Hartlepool's Labour
MP Iain Wright.
Wright,
is happy to blather on about how the government is not doing enough to bring
decent jobs to Northern towns like Hartlepool, but it's a case of do as I say, not as I do. You see Wright thinks it's
perfectly acceptable to employ his wife on £27,000
a year instead of giving that job to an unemployed local person.
In the
good old days of proper journalism when local newspapers would make MPs like
Wright accountable for their actions, The Hartlepool Mail would have been
asking him to explain his duplicity.
Not these
days. No flaming chance.
It would
be hard for the Hartlepool Mail to bring Wright to book because the Editor and
the papers owners are just as proficient in the hypocrisy stakes as Wright.
