Paul Linford is an insightful as ever HERE. Vented Spleen has a very funny rant HERE. The Ministry of Truth orders you to read THIS. ChickYog thinks he's finished HERE.
What do these blogs have in common? None of them are run by Conservatives. So much for the Swift Boat analogy Mr Robinson!
Don't forget we can watch Prezzas demise in a news feed!
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The spleen's great, but he's definitely Tory. He may not be an actual member of the Party, but I'm sure that he is conservative enough for Nick to accuse him of "making the political weather"...
ReplyDeleteNewsnight's Paul Mason is at it too; naturally since he linked to me, I felt that I should reply...
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Iain, your position at the vanguard of political blogging, will clearly rub many in the mainstream media up the wrong way. It seems to me the first counterattack by Paxman and Co has been to suggest you are simply at the vanguard of a group of bloggers under the direction of CCHQ who will simply act as a conduit for any ugly news which they may not personally wish to convey to the British electorate.
ReplyDeleteI for one think that you are breaking a news monopoly in the U.K. which has been dominant for far too long, and that it is essential that you refute this first counterattack by the mainstream media, by showing that it is the British Public in general who have had enough of Prescotts' hypocritical behaviour, who are by and large not all Tories!!
I congratulate you on this latest episode in your blogging career, and wish you well in exposing more of the hypocrisy in this Government. P.S. I am a student at Hull University and believe me Iain there is no love lost around here for the deputy Prime Minister!!
By and large, the British public don't like hypocrites. The BBC is funded by that public, on pain of imprisonment whether you watch/listen to it or not. But the BBC has connived at the utter hypocrisy of the current Government in particular, and politicians in general, for far too long, and thus become total hypocrites themselves. They don't like this being pointed out by the bloggers - hate to realise people have noticed! The public aren't buying what they choose to feed them. Can't have this - got their monopoly to protect.
ReplyDeleteGoing back a little, when the saga of Cherie Blair buying the Bristol flats with "financial advice" provided by a man convicted of fraud on three continents was beginning to boil in (some) newspapers, the BBC ignored the story completely. Downing Street totally denied it - so that was OK then. When the smell got so bad even the BBC were forced to notice it, the then Political Correspondent, Andrew Marr, actually said on BBC TV News that it was a "non-story" being spun out by a newspaper which didn't support the Government! He must have known full well that it was completely true, as presumably did the rest of Westminster. Everyone but the public...........
Members of this Government always deny everything all the time - right up to the moment they have to resign for misleading the public. All the media know this - even Nick Robinson, surely -so let's not suggest that because politicians deny any wrongdoing we should all accept every word they say like idiots.
Iain - just found this whilst putting some links in a post of my own. You should read this - if you haven't already ( some good Prescott quotes for your next interview ).
ReplyDeletePrescott party conference speech 1998.
OK sorry - just read your Comment is free article - see you were there already (96 conference speech). Its just such staggering stuff I can't see why the video of it isn't running on the news all the time along with Ms Temple walking beside Prezza.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me the first counterattack by Paxman and Co has been to suggest you are simply at the vanguard of a group of bloggers under the direction of CCHQ
ReplyDeleteRight. The day Unity (or me, or DK) takes direction from CCHQ is the day Mr Morningstar needs to de-ice his chariot.
A lot of LABOUR supporters are disgusted by Prescott, and a number of non-partizan and soft partizan types of all shades are worried by the money connection; Alex covered the Dome/AEG/casino bill link over a month ago (I missed it then, must've not read him that week).
Bloggers plotting in the pay of CCHQ? No, individual free people, across the country, expressing their disdain and throwing links around. For those that haven't read the Ministry of Truth links, do so, I think he's spot on.
Wow... I'm actually lost for an appropriate blog thread to post my comment in!
ReplyDeleteAnyway... I'm just wondering now, if Prescott goes and the perks and trappings of his status leave him (it's not a job, clearly), how far behind them will Pauline be? Is this likely? Will Guido be offering odds?
For a woman who seems accustomed to living a ministerial lifestyle (ie, being driven several metres so her hair doesn't fall out of place), she doesn't seem the committed family sort ;)
Otherwise- and not to complain or detract attention from the story of the moment- is it possible you could comment on one or two other current events, Iain? I'm particularly hungry to discuss the appalling state of affairs involving the Natwest Three and Blair's misleading of the House at PMQs this week.