JOEY BARTON HAS come to the realisation that he can use his Twitter account for good as well as nonsense, and started a campaign for full disclosure of documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster.
The Guardian reports that the Newcastle United midfielder took to the social networking site on Thursday to send over 40 messages to celebrities including Sir Alan Sugar and Lady Gaga.
He was urging them to sign a petition aimed at getting the British Government to withdraw its opposition to the publication of all files relating to the tragedy in April 1989.
The Cabinet Office recently made efforts to conceal the publication of documents that included correspondence between then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her home secretary, Douglas Hurd, and it was this action by the current UK Government that led to the creation of the e-petition.
Barton insists he will tweet about nothing else until he has the requisite 100,000 votes that will bring the motion into the Houses of Parliament.
Having seen no response from Apprentice star and former Tottenham chairman Sugar, Barton then tweeted the following:
The number of people that have signed the petition currently stands at approximately 51,000, and is rising all the time as a result of Barton’s tweets.
