David Craig (author) explained

David Craig (real name Neil Glass)[1] is a British author. He has been a management consultant and in his 2005 book Rip-Off!: the scandalous inside story of the management consulting money machine he criticised the greed and sharp practice of consultants.[2] His next book Plundering the Public Sector: how New Labour are letting consultants run off with £70 billion of our money was co-authored by Richard Brooks and addressed consultancy in the public sector.[3] In April 2008 he published Squandered: how Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money.[4]

He adopted a pseudonym, and created the publishing house "The Original Book Company", to publish Rip-off! after it was turned down by conventional publishers "for fear, he says, that it might upset the wrong people". After it sold 10,000 copies his next two books were published by commercial publisher Constable, but he kept the pseudonym to benefit from the first book's success.[1]

In June 2008 Craig announced that he would stand as a candidate in the 2008 Haltemprice and Howden by-election,[5] but came tenth out of 26 candidates, with 0.6% of the vote; the Conservative party's David Davis won with 71.6%.[6]

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  1. Web site: Double identity of David Davis challenger . 2008-06-16 . The First Post: the online daily magazine . 2008-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110519214949/http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1065,double-identity-of-david-davis-challenger,31506 . 2011-05-19 . dead .
  2. Web site: Natural born billers . Cohen . Nick . 2005-06-19 . The Guardian . 2008-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100227215609/http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2005/jun/19/comment.publicservices . 2010-02-27 . live .
  3. Web site: Plundering the Public Sector: How New Labour are Letting Consultants Run Off with £70 Billion of our Money . Paton . Alex . 2006-07-29 . British Medical Journal . 2008-06-17 . https://archive.today/20240525034142/https://www.webcitation.org/5vIB1AseY?url=http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/333/7561/266%3Frss . 2024-05-25 . live .
  4. Web site: Squandered: book review . Clark . Nick . June 2008 . Socialist Review . 2008-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091012054555/http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10439 . 2009-10-12 . live .
  5. Web site: A challenger for David Davis . Walker . Tim . 2008-06-16 . The Telegraph . 2008-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120205182936/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2141350/A-challenger-for-David-Davis.html . 2012-02-05 . live .
  6. News: Haltemprice and Howden: Result in full . 11 July 2008. BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 27 July 2023.

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