I’ve just had sight of an ‘official’ document which describes this blog as “juvenile and immature”.

It must be all the big words we use. They probably think we’re making them up.

The ‘officials’ don’t seem to get the concept of blogging, satire or just downright having fun poking a stick at the self important.

Still, it’s nice to be recognized.

Maybe we’ll get nominated for a BAFTA next year. Childrens section.

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Hi, John, we’ve not forgotten you.

Hi, Gordon, we’ve forgotten you already.

The Management would like to annouce that the previous owner of Mannisms has decided that he is too committed elsewhere and has passed the blog on to another to continue. That would be me.

Actually, I’ve been posting on here for some time, sharing the load, as it were.

The previous owner was somewhat constrained, due to his position as a councillor.  I am not.

The blog is no longer hosted in the UK. To save the Diddy Manns brains from bursting trying to find it, it’s now in Texas, y’all. And there are a further two mirror sites in countries where you wouldn’t like to walk about in the dark and the authorities (LOL) would laugh their asses off at any attempt to get this masterpiece of English prose shut down.

So Mannisms is here to stay.

How do you like them apples, John?

I started adding two and two re Mann’s behaviour and got to what I think is four.

In his first stint in Westminster, he was troughing with the rest of them and was: (1) joint 2nd (out of 657 MPs) in 2001/2 for claiming expenses for staying away from home (2) 19th (out of 657) for overall expenses in 2001/2 (3) joint 1st (out of 657) for claiming expenses for both staying away from home and office running costs in 2002/3(4) 48th (out of 659) for claiming overall expenses in 2004/5 and (5) always in top 55 MPs for claiming expenses for stationary and postage between 2001 and 2009. (Thanks to M.R. for the information)

However, in recent years he has started trying to present himself as Mr Clean. Why?

Well, quite simply, he fancies a seat at the top table. He’s already started his campaign with a call for the removal of Gordon Brown, no doubt offering himself as a replacement. One of the more sycophantic Labour Blogs recently had a post suggesting the very same, with lots of sickening comments from Diddy Manns about how honest and upstanding their hero was.

This would explain why Mann gets apoplectic at any questions about his expenses claims as he is trying to bury any hint of previous misdemeanours.

And also why he wants this blog gone as his sins are laid out on Google for all to see.

If any Labour MPs have not seen this blog, I’ll be emailing all of them with a link over the next week or two, just in case they are entertaining any thoughts of John Mann as a potential candidate for stardom. A quick read of this should put them straight.

Well, I was content to let the blog go, having proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that John Mann was bullying and deceiving the electorate and shamelessly using any excuse to get his name in the paper ( if a suitable excuse was not immediately handy, he was not above inventing one).

However, one of his cronies reported this blog to the Standards Board, who wisely decided that that it was not in the public interest to pursue any action.

Mann is desperate to get this blog shut down, and I know why.

So, just to keep myself amused, I’ll start posting again.