The Mirror on-line has published a story about MP Grant Shapps using ‘fakery’ to promote the Consertives 2015 recruitment drive. His Tory party website shows a group of ‘eager young activists’ who are the same group of people shown smiling on an Australian university website!

The Mirror reports: “In a message running alongside the Tory recruitment site Mr Shapps says: “We need to mobilise our hard working volunteers to ensure that we can deliver on the ground. “That is why we are looking to recruit for Team 2015 so we can deploy our best troops to where they are needed.”

The fake activists are exposed following revelations that millionaire minister Mr Shapps used a false name to promote a get-rich-quick scheme over the internet.The MP became a laughing stock when it emerged that he posed as Michael Green, a tycoon with a personal fortune of £17million, who would share the secrets of his success for a fee. The minister was even photographed wearing a “Michael Green” name badge at a convention.

The story also bears reminiscence of Mr Shapps’ Big Society promotion in 2011 when he posed with a group of ‘local’ volunteers who had appeared to paint the white bridge in WGC town centre; However, it was later revealed that contractors had painted most of it! And, in the same year, he was criticized for bussing in Tory party members from outside the area when trying to get signatures that would lead to the abolition of Hatfield’s ancient Town Council. He failed in this too, and his scheme was condemned as an asset strip of the profitable Town Council.