…you just don’t want to write a story because it may affect you personally in the future.
However, sometimes such things are too funny to let pass by. for instance, Hansard is currently looking for freelance writers at a rate of £20 per hour - not a bad rate for the job. Yet applicants are required to proof-read the following piece of text as part of the application.
Mrs. B: Let us draw a vale over that exchange and move swiftly on to the matter of Hinckley Point nuclear power station near Bridgewater, the affluent from which is effecting my constituents in a deleterious manner. This unpleasant effluvium, that contravenes all the regulations issued by the directorate-generals of the European Union, is causing consternation throughout the region.
The Minister: That is indeed a matter of the utmost concern, and I understand that there is now a far higher incidents of random mutation in the area than in the Untied Kingdom as a whole. As a result, we are sending in a crack team of consultants from Accenture—the company formally known as Anderson Consulting.
I can’t imagine which MPs the Hansard recruiters can be thinking of, whose contributions require such extensive editorial work.
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Hansard employs freelance writers does it? Ah ha, so it is all made up then is it? Or do they write all those witty parliamentary ‘ad libs’ like wot the writers for “Have I got News For You” are wont to do?
Hughes Views said this on July 17th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Don’t think MPs do their own transcription do they? So it’s the stenographer wot made the errerz.
Chris Paul said this on July 18th, 2007 at 2:08 pm