The McCanns. It's Still the Money Stupid!

It's nice to see the MSM eventually extending their critical faculties towards the McCann junketing.

YUK!

Here, Theo Dalrymple in the Telegraph wipes the floor with former Detective Superintendent Albert Kirby about the effectiveness of the grotesque media circus following these wretched parents.
Theo rightly points out that the main reason for this outbreak on Diane-esque  sentimentality can  to be found in the way kids are treated in the UK.

"The important question is this: why has Britain given way to yet another world class display of emotional kitsch? And I think the answer is obvious. It is because we treat our children so badly.
It is a psychological commonplace that sentimentality often co-exists with cruelty, and it is no coincidence that this outburst of mawkishness should have occurred in the country in which, according to a recent Unicef report, children have worse lives than in any comparable country."

Indeed what amazes me is why on earth the McCanns felt they could not take their children to eat with them the evening young Madeleine disappeared. After all, they started eating a 7.00 pm.

Although I find the kissing of Madeleine's photo by the Pope sickening, what interests me is still the money.

Today, the  fund is nudging £375,000.00.

Questions-who is running the fund and what are the public contributions  being spent on are, I feel, kept deliberately from public gaze.
Journalists, no doubt hypnotised by  the  McCanns celebrity status, have failed to asked their Foreign Office minder, Clarence Mitchell, these basic questions . And while they're in the mood for some proper journalism, perhaps they could ask whether Clarence's junketing being paid for by the taxpayer?

 

Comments

[MarkS]

The fund is at £375k.... and the rest. I can't believe that's all its raised so far. Anyway, won't go very far once the International Family Law Group (what the feck is that?) and the auditors have been paid. You can bet your life that every member of Team McCann that flies out to visit Gerry & Kate will get their air fare paid and their accommdation. Then there's the publicity wallahs and their poster and video work. Hang on a mo... there's a whole industry here! The journos get to stay in Portugal a wee while longer too and the whole thing turns into a circus moving from town to town on a pan-European bandwaggon. Something doesn't add up about the whole sorry saga. The McCann's either know someone very powerful or have some dirt on that someone. I am offended that a high-ranking civil servant has been loaned to the McCann's in an exercise of guilt pruging and grandstanding. What is going on?

[Tony]

Mark,
I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one suspicious of "Team McCann"- I love that expression. And as for the IFG Law Group.
Try this: http://tinyurl.com/25wa5c
Tony H.

[sophie]

Now we are going to be having an International Madeleine Day.. and what pray happened to the International Ben Needham Day and the International Sarah Payne Day..etc, etc, etc
God those people are acting in such bad taste... they get rewarded for their negligence.. go figure!

[Jacqueline]

Could you please sign this petition asking Leicestershire Social Services to investigate the conduct of the McCanns:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?June2007

[GeorgeS]

They have stopped posting the latest value of the fund, I thought they might do that when it got close to a million, anyone know how to find out the current value??

Also, aren't the Portuguese Gov't. picking up the family travel costs, and Mark Warner offering free accomodation to the TEAM members??