So, the UK government registered http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/, but they neglected to get http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/. The lovely little parody at the second site sprung up. As the perpetrator says:
It would only have been mildly funny, had some
bod at the Cabinet Office not objected, sent me
a firm email, and turned the whole thing into a
news story
“This has gone beyond Tonbridge Monkey Man
proportions – I’ve had about two pages
in the Guardian supplement today, as well as
being on three local TV news shows last night.”
Thank God he’s not in the US. He’d have been detained in the butt by now.
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