The old saying that today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapper (pre Health and Safety) doesn’t apply to the web.

True, causes will be taken up and run their course and be replaced by other more recent causes. But while printed matter ends up in the blue bin and gets recycled into toilet paper (which, to be honest, it was in  the first place), web content never goes away. It hangs around to haunt anyone who is imprudent enough to get the attention of the media, large or small.

Try Googling for “John Mann libel” or “John Mann ASDA” and you’ll see that this site and the other blog sites which support me are all there for everyone to see, right up at the top of the search engine rankings.

So anyone looking for the Gospel according to Mann on Google, Yahoo or Bing will have quite a few versions to choose from.

And unlike the recycled newspaper stories, they will be there till the end of eternity.

NOTE: To the Diddy Manns who leave comments here. Unless you are commenting on the article, your comments will not be published.

For the past few days, John Mann’s website has been advising people :

If The Phone Rings On Thursday Evening – Please Answer It!
On Thursday evening (21st January 2010) John Mann MP is conducting an automated telephone poll in Worksop and surrounding villages on the Vesuvius site issue.

Today, he published the results of the poll:

A poll last night, Thursday 22 January of residents living in Worksop, Carlton, Blyth, Langold, Oldcotes, Welbeck has revealed that they are overwhelmingly opposed to Notts County Council’s proposals to cut, privatise and price hike services for the elderly and vulnerable.

Eh? What happened to the Vesuvius site poll?

We think we know. He had a poll running on his website sampling visitor opinion regarding the Vesuvius planning application. When the voting was starting to favour the Council’s decision, it was removed in very short order.

Looks like he’s backing down on Vesuvius, doesn’t it?