Talk:Gavin Barwell

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Edits - 28 December 2012[edit]

Hmmm, so I removed a whole pile of stuff this evening. Looks like much of it was copyvio anyway - either from Barwell's own webpage or from the Tory party profile. I've rewritten and sourced much of it from at least vaguely independent sources. It may be that someone close to Barwell has edited the page. Nothing wrong with that but *please* try to keep to wikipedia policies regarding copyright violations and try to be a little more neutral in tone and style - it seemed rather promotional in nature.

I'm struggling to find many references to "Lillian's Law" - if I can't find anything then that section may need to go - I've asked for citations in it as it is. Anything even vaguely neutral would keep it.

It also seems to be difficult to find out exactly what his job(s) in parliament are - Who's who would suggest only one job, but the article claims he worked for Gove amongst others. I'll see what I can find on that, but it needs sourcing anyway. Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:46, 28 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Lillian's Law campaign successfully introduced new legislation in the Crime and Courts Act 2013. References now added. Blackberry Sorbet (talk • contribs) 16:02, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AdSense[edit]

IP user (User:88.108.50.157, User:88.108.58.24) has twice added:

Barwell was ridiculed heavily online after a political gaffe in which he inadvertently exposed the fact that Google Adsense was directing ads for 'dating Arab girls' towards him, something which would only happen had the computer he was using been used to search for such topics.

As well as the matter of WP:UNDUE, there is an element of misleading smear in the edit: as Business Insider admits:

Of course, there's no evidence that the married politician himself was searching for "date Arab girls" — it's not clear he was using his own computer. The Guardian reports that when they tried to access the website, it did feature a banner advertisement for a dating website at the bottom of the page, even when accessed from multiple computers...

Blackberry Sorbet (talk • contribs) 13:33, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Telegraph COI[edit]

The Telegraph writes that politicians have had pages whitewashed by users connected to the legislature. Also on Indy and IBTimes. -- Aronzak (talk) 14:11, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Gavin's got a new sock puppet[edit]

Barwell denies the claims, saying he followed 'proper process' when filing the election expenses.^[1] The Police investigation is ongoing.

Was updated to :

Parliamentary standards committee found him guilty. <http://www.parliament.uk/documents/pcfs/rectifications/Gavin-Barwell-MP.pdf>

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Barwell denies the claims, saying he followed 'proper process' when filing the election expenses.^[1] The Police investigation concluded in February 2016 that there was no case to answer.

Downing Street Chief of Staff[edit]

Greetings APM. Sincere but sorrowful thanks for amending my edit yesterday on this section. The article last night still had the comment "the Conservative Party is avoiding questions relating to the fire" -which I believe came from the journalists. I checked with the wayback machine & that story has changed & now includes an interview with Portillo but the question in the headline still appears on Google search. Following the change, of course it appears WP:NPOV and WP:EDITORIALising ...so thanks for removing -& no-thanks to the Telegraph! Also he was "criticised for blanking and walking past reporters asking questions about Grenfell Tower." I didn't use the term 'blanking' -I'd never heard of it(!) -but he avoided questions which he was physically in a position to answer. I'll expand this slightly but feel free to improve. JRPG (talk) 11:24, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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