There's an article in the Daily Mail that begins like this:LABOUR COULD PAY SNITCHES TO SHOP BENEFITS CHEAT NEIGHBOURS...
People would be paid for shopping benefit cheats to the authorities under plans being considered by Labour.
I don't know why it is, but in newspapers things are always under plans, never according to them. I've never said: "Under my plan we'll be there in half an hour" or "We're off to the pub under plans being proposed by me." Perhaps I should. Perhaps that's why my social worker says I'm not yet Ready For Government.
I also adore the use of the pejorative criminal slang in the headline. The Daily Mail is clearly on the side of the benefit cheats against the snitches who would fain shop them. For a random Daily Mail healine generator click here.
It just gave me HAS CHANNEL 4 MOLESTED YOUR PETS?
Says Paul Dacre
A tip of the hat to The Engine Room
Isn't it a little worse than that? Even in the non-headline version, shouldn't it be "People would be paid for [turning in] shopping benefit cheats to the authorities under plans being considered by Labour." ?
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