Mr Monkey’s Blog evolved out of The Monkeyhouse blog which was an experimental political blog covering the borough of South Tyneside.
The Monkeyhouse,was originally conceived to test the demand for a ‘no holes barred’ blog and it quickly established a reputation amongst local bloggers for it’s controversial style and it’s frank and often brutal coverage of the local political scene.
No one is safe from The Monkey’s wrath as he continues exposing the real stories behind the spin, lies and cover ups.
Senior political figures were so alarmed by The Monkey’s approach to blogging and the threat it posed to their cosy world that they vowed to stop The Monkeyhouse in it’s tracks. But despite the talk of legal action they were unable to put an end to The Monkeyhouse.
As they’re frustrations grew they resorted to censorship and ordered all council owned computers, including those used by elected members, to ban access to The Monkeyhouse. Unfortunately this pathetic attempt at trying to control free-speech backfired and resulted in a dramatic rise in The Monkeyhouse’s popularity .. the so called political elite had been outwitted by a monkey!
As The Monkeyhouse continued to attract more and more readers The Monkey, who hosted the blog, rapidly became known as Mr Monkey.
In July 2008 Mr Monkey decided a ’monkey makeover’ was in order. As well as a fresh new crisp look The Monkeyhouse changed it’s name to Mr Monkey’s Blog which reflected the name now given to The Monkey.
Mr Monkey’s Blog will be primarily focused on local politics, gossip and breaking news from within South Tyneside and will also from time to times feature snippets from outside South Tyneside.
Mr Monkey will also keep a watching brief on the local media particularly The Shields Gazette which many believe is the mouthpiece for the local labour party.
Mr Monkey will provide the reader with a unique glimpse of his world, a world of intrigue, secrets, cunning, deceit, scheming, violent power struggles, daylight robbery, treachery, debauchery, abuse, conflict, gang warfare, territorial disputes, self destruction, self interest and even annihilation – sounds familiar, it should do, Mr Monkey shares around 98% of your genes!
Not many things in life are certain, but you can be sure of one thing, the tone and content of Mr Monkey’s Blog will bring new meaning to the term GORILLA WARFARE!
Mr Monkey, can you take a look at the TOPS programme and how this is being dealt with. Two schools face a decision on 26 November about closure, the decision was deferred at the last cabinet meeting looking at the TOPS proposals. I think because the council were alarmed at the public campaign to keep both schools from closure. There is more, much more in terms of consultants appointed by the council to deal with this and how the council officers and ruling party have done their best to sweep aside all contrary arguments and spin things to their advantage.
Do you have a dead letter box or msn where we can discuss this?
God you are the topic of conversation at The Red Lion East Boldon! We’re calling it the Stellagate scandal.
Mr Monkey – Congratulations on you for exposing the corrupt underbelly of South Tyneside politics. I and two other former work colleagues have tried to do this for almost ten years now, only to be beaten back by denials and lies from the local authority, South Tyneside council. In final frustration at the way we were treated, we launched our own website exposing a disgraceful catalogue of corruption which we not only uncovered, but became wembroiled in during the last decade (and our final months of working for the authority). We hope you find our webiste – still a ‘work in progress – interesting and shocking.
Our website is http://www.corruptcouncils.co.uk
Incidentally, we also campaigned to all of the serving councillors during the years 2001-2. We gained ONE response! The rest didn’t want to know!
We’d be happy to provide a link from the above site to yours if you wish.
Sites such as Mr. Monkey deserve awards – not our council!
I’m looking forward to reading about your future court case in the Gazette. It will be very, very interesting.
Contact me, have goss on pottsy.
what goes around comes around.you will fall like a ton of bricks and be either knee capped or jailed watch your back! i’m onto you !!!!!!!!!!!
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Keep up the good work Mr Monkey. You’ll get them in the end – what goes around, comes around.
I love your site. Keep it up !
Hi mrmonkeysblog,
I just wanted to invite you to participate in a brand new political blogging and social networking tool called http://www.PollBooth.com
The site is currently closed to the general public, only politicians, journalists and bloggers such as yourself will be invited to join for the time being.
If you want to join just send an email to request.invite@pollbooth.com including the webaddress of your current blog and if approved I’ll send you an official invitation code allowing you to register on the site.
I hope to hear from you shortly and if not apologies for contacting you.
Regards,
Thom