One could take this to be the ramblings of one rogue officer if it were not for the fact that the twitter account involved belongs to none other than the council's very on Digital Inclusion Unit Manager, who's £30,000+ a year job it is (among other things) to organise training in social media for local businesses! 

Even more remiss is the fact that the account it was sent from carries none of the usual “disclaimer” along the lines of “tweets are in a personal capacity”. This lack of disclaimer not only questions the competency of the said tweeter in the basic premises of Net-etiquette, but may also give the reader the impression that his views and comments are indeed sanctioned by the council, something I would very much doubt.

Indeed, looking through Bullevent's tweets he would profess to be some kind of expert on Social media considering the number of conferences he attends and commentary he gives on the council's own communications policy. 

But it's not just drinker's in Scunthorpe Bullevent seems to harbour some sort of class prejudice for, as it would appear that he also believes that people who watch x-factor should have their benefits stopped. Presumably this is so that the money saved can be spent on his tax-payer funded pension which is also coming under threat from government cuts? There is no surprise that with attitudes and opinions such as this expressed by officers that the public (wrongly in my mind) has little patience for the public sector campaign to keep their pension rights. Surely we should all be in this together, and not besmirching and belittling those less fortunate than our selves?

This does however demonstrate yet again, another example of the class divide in modern Britain which we seen on a daily basis. Here we see a public sector employee deliberately attacking large groups of people who are socially disadvantaged while doubtless claiming in his defence that those who need these services or indeed would frequent such an establishment are indeed feckless.One really would have thought and hoped that all council officers were made aware of the McCollum case and that this was included in their “social media training” as this article in the Daily Mail clearly show http://bounceit.info/?i=1lf

Not only are his comments derogatory towards a very large number of people in North Lincolnshire, they are poorly thought out and a sad indicator as to what is considered to be acceptable levels of behaviour in today's society.

I'll be talking about the wider impact of this kind of behaviour, and looking at reasons why “Chav Bashing” has become acceptable on my new blog LincolnshireRed.WordPress.Com -http://bounceit.info/?i=1lg