tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post5382401783699634839..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Parish NoticeIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-31462173426441029692010-06-11T09:47:55.058+01:002010-06-11T09:47:55.058+01:00Repeat after me
ENGLAND is the Mother of Parliame...Repeat after me<br /><br />ENGLAND is the Mother of Parliaments<br /><br />WESTMINSTER is NOT the Mother of Parliaments - merely one of the wayward children<br /><br /><br />ENGLAND is the Mother of Parliaments<br /><br />WESTMINSTER is NOT the Mother of Parliaments - merely one of the wayward children<br /><br /><br />ENGLAND is the Mother of Parliaments<br /><br />WESTMINSTER is NOT the Mother of Parliaments - merely one of the wayward children<br /><br />and so on . . .jdrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16008038550864745019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-65812029031772851442010-06-10T17:10:41.796+01:002010-06-10T17:10:41.796+01:00Hear, Here, Iain.
Keep doing what you're doin...Hear, Here, Iain.<br /><br />Keep doing what you're doing mate. You make a very good job of it.Stephen Wigmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15604582974059809054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-80994537768461400712010-06-10T11:35:01.487+01:002010-06-10T11:35:01.487+01:00Iain Dale said "The Rooney book post was not ...Iain Dale said <i>"The Rooney book post was not to puff the book, it was to highlight the outrageous behaviour of Schillings in trying to stop it from being published."</i> <br /><br />Yes, but you can't seriously argue that the extra publicity will be harmful for you and your company, will it?The Grim Reaperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543130733645367498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-28322818228918166492010-06-10T10:26:34.576+01:002010-06-10T10:26:34.576+01:00"The public has no interest in whether or not..."The public has no interest in whether or not your mother approved of your "husband" before you "married" or whether she listens to programmes in which you discuss your sexual preferences"<br /><br />Maybe Iain should check with you next time he decides to share any personal information with his listeners. You obviously have his best interests at heart. If only it were possible to thank you in person.wildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14437167510102273197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-85116300648477564522010-06-10T10:15:39.441+01:002010-06-10T10:15:39.441+01:00It's quite extraordinary how many people seem ...It's quite extraordinary how many people seem to believe they have any right whatsoever to tell you how to run your own business. As others have said - your blog, your time effort and money, your choice.<br /><br />'Only trying to help' is so often the claim. I get pretty close to homicidal when I hear that phrase. Why do these people think they have anything at all to offer? Utter morons. Apart from anything else, bloody bad-mannered too.Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-33132683814136983792010-06-10T09:45:32.374+01:002010-06-10T09:45:32.374+01:00I've read your blog since 2005, and as my blog...I've read your blog since 2005, and as my blog list has changed through working at a think-tank, and asset manager and now as a trader, you have always been on it. I only read four political blogs now but I have never thought of dropping yours!JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02900465024382591965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-61491426420517878572010-06-10T09:35:58.041+01:002010-06-10T09:35:58.041+01:00"Weren't the libel issues raised by the S..."Weren't the libel issues raised by the Schillings threat to us over the Rooney book relevant?"<br /><br />Relevant, and, judging from the fact that Private Eye has featured them in its latest issue, newsworthy.<br /><br />Ignore the carpers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11802477315760221094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-65746333203994377522010-06-10T09:25:51.890+01:002010-06-10T09:25:51.890+01:00Well done for out growing blogging, Iain, but that...Well done for out growing blogging, Iain, but that does not mean you end blogging, just that "only blogging" is not enough for you.<br /><br />Hampstead Owl is trying to cut a tall poppy.Roger Thornhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03591327286533118901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-48189446892401637842010-06-10T09:18:32.768+01:002010-06-10T09:18:32.768+01:00Oh dear Pete (and to some extent others). Why is i...Oh dear Pete (and to some extent others). Why is it that people like you simply cannot cope with a point of view different from your own without becoming offensive?<br /><br />Anyway, next time I choose to say something controversial I think I'll go for an easier target - the Prophet Mohammed maybe - where there are fewer fundamentalists to deal with.<br /><br />For what little it's worth, I wasn't criticising the content of the blog. I am also in total agreement with that hugely erudite argument that if I don't like it I don't have to read it. But surely one of the characteristics of a good blog is other people pitching in, and if everyone who took issue with the blog host just went away, it would soon get very dull indeed<br /><br />The point about the content I was actually making was different: : that its increasing focus on the other things Iain is doing might lead us to conclude that he is moving beyond the blog and could even be planning to wind it up. Iain has since answered that point, albeit I thought in an unnecessarily crabby way (I know I don't have to read it).<br /><br />Clearly I touched upon a sore point, but even though Iain is not an elected politician he has also chosen to put himself in the public eye (may even be starting to tick some of the boxes marked "national treasure") and can hardly complain if some people start to ask questions about his intentions or his motivation. I don't know Iain, but think well enough of him to believe that, in his more placid moments, he might agree with that. Not sure about some of his more fanatical supporters, however.<br /><br />Given the number of Dale fundies there are obviously out there, I hold to my earlier defence that what I was raising here was a matter of extreme public interest.HampsteadOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10579484010636107402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-13244894021712618572010-06-10T08:54:04.370+01:002010-06-10T08:54:04.370+01:00Iain, I was about to advise you to tell the moanin...Iain, I was about to advise you to tell the moaning f**kers to piss off, but I see you are already out of the blogs on that one.<br /><br />You will know whether you are doing right or wrong by watching the traffic flow to each page. The numbers don't lie.<br /><br />Personally, I think you do a good job with this blog. It is free to the end user, and it helps, in one way or another, to provide you with an income. Whats not to like?Nullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14097211775158236323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-51376842392967571882010-06-10T08:15:57.673+01:002010-06-10T08:15:57.673+01:00Iain
You do a great job on this blog.
But I bet ...Iain<br /><br />You do a great job on this blog.<br /><br />But I bet you every reader would do it just a little different if s/he were running the show.<br /><br />Of course anyone else has the opportunity to do just that - set up their own blog and see if they can get the readership.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03234085314662011091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-62501667954610847412010-06-10T04:49:40.461+01:002010-06-10T04:49:40.461+01:00Further confirmation that Hampstead Owl is onto so...Further confirmation that Hampstead Owl is onto something here. These lawyers seem to think Iain's criticisms were unjustified and it is a non story. <br />Iain-Pull yourself together. even your appearance on Radio 5 last week was embarrassing-The public has no interest in whether or not your mother approved of your "husband" before you "married" or whether she listens to programmes in which you discuss your sexual preferences<br /><br />http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/libel-reform-and-wayne-rooney/Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03546087305002576689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-63737068947941903252010-06-10T03:28:41.009+01:002010-06-10T03:28:41.009+01:00Iain, you are absolutely right about blogging. You...Iain, you are absolutely right about blogging. You should just ignore this silly man. <br /><br />I do worry that you seemed to be upset by what he said, though. You need an extremely thick skin to survive in politics and I'm not sure you've got one.Thomas Rossettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242906347478972349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-79121210536814438552010-06-10T01:54:48.162+01:002010-06-10T01:54:48.162+01:00Q : It's high time we had more people ready to...Q : It's high time we had more people ready to take a stand against objective judgement and free- thinking opinion."<br /><br />It is even higher time that people like you who seem to revel in only negative comment are countered by optimists, of which I count myself one.<br /><br />Any arsehole can criticise (as you have just proved). Not that you care, but if I have an issue with Iain or other bloggers whom I generally approve of, I take it up quietly by email.<br /><br />Not ALL of us can belong to the 13-year destructive machine called New Labour Spin, some of us choose to remain true to our own values, and be targets for the arseholes to aim at, so that you.<br /><br />Alan DouglasAlan Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071898364060640779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-57592263036997300082010-06-10T01:42:45.012+01:002010-06-10T01:42:45.012+01:00I agree with the central accusation about you, Iai...I agree with the central accusation about you, Iain. You HAVE changed and not for the best. <br />You provide the Schillings story as an example but fail to mention your bizarre posting on the Guardian website yesterday. Had you responded to emails-as you always did in the past-you wouldn't have complained. A response to THREE emails is now still awaited, something which would never have occurred with the old Iain.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03546087305002576689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-79679436153533079132010-06-10T01:24:09.949+01:002010-06-10T01:24:09.949+01:00well I bought the rooney book
only a third throug...well I bought the rooney book<br /><br />only a third through - weird writing style but interesting<br /><br />keep it up Iain disagree politically with you but admire your workChris O'Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661280789713708822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-20742113042361812192010-06-10T01:07:14.059+01:002010-06-10T01:07:14.059+01:00Have to agree. I switched on LBC the other night b...Have to agree. I switched on LBC the other night because I read that you would be on at that particular point.<br /><br />I think you have quite a nice voice, that it 'soothing' to listen to. <br /><br />I visit your blog daily, and enjoy it a lot. I do find it slightly annoying when you don't make any posts for a while, but that's my fault because I check your blog on multiple occasions each day! <br /><br />You keep a good blog ;)<br /><br />PS - stop all the damn Top 10 etc!Magical_Misthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446193963152993371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34988478282004182172010-06-10T01:01:51.685+01:002010-06-10T01:01:51.685+01:00If you do switch your direction, why not? Everybod...If you do switch your direction, why not? Everybody else is doing it, as the landscape has changed.<br /><br />It's not as if it takes half an hour *not* to read an article, is it :-)Matt Wardmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04326720801362744582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22722857385854252842010-06-10T00:36:14.321+01:002010-06-10T00:36:14.321+01:00So this morning you were upset because somebody di...So this morning you were upset because somebody didn't like your play. This evening you are upset because somebody currently doesn't like your blog. Only a couple of weeks ago you decided to be rather unpleasant to a protester who dared to disagree with you on your blog.<br /><br />Grow a thicker skin, please. You are at your worst when you are blogging about meta-issues like this. You are coming across as rather petty.<br /><br />Its your blog so do what you like, but this is feedback... Please don't name or shame or ridicule me for being honest. Just read it, and choose whether to take it in, or ignore it...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09523255925908875475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-64712217162707119772010-06-10T00:36:14.322+01:002010-06-10T00:36:14.322+01:00Perhaps its just me but I like to hear about other...Perhaps its just me but I like to hear about other things going on in your life, it helps the understanding of your opinions. Also some of the things you do and places you get go to are interesting. I like those bits. Keep on blogingalistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447406108028693551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-45404018865136354862010-06-10T00:26:24.765+01:002010-06-10T00:26:24.765+01:00You can't please everyone so stop trying. Your...You can't please everyone so stop trying. Your survey told you things were fine. The odd whinger is to be expected.<br />I don't listen to your radio shows and rarely watch the newspaper reports - mostly because I forget - but have no problem with you telling us about them.<br />Rock on.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15333501249832195399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-52046401810516543852010-06-10T00:22:16.428+01:002010-06-10T00:22:16.428+01:00The Rooney book post was not to puff the book, it ...The Rooney book post was not to puff the book, it was to highlight the outrageous behaviour of Schillings in trying to stop it from being published. The post highlighted why our libel laws and privacy laws need to be changed.Iain Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-81135067463274953002010-06-10T00:19:20.548+01:002010-06-10T00:19:20.548+01:00oh take no notice of people like that -
as you s...oh take no notice of people like that - <br /><br />as you say - its a free market - if they dont like it - they can go somewhere else.<br /><br />i like the links you give to other stuff you do.<br /><br />so just know a lot of us out here very much appreciate what you do.<br /><br />keep on bloggin'Danny Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08789209821773052718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91329847921306384472010-06-10T00:15:42.324+01:002010-06-10T00:15:42.324+01:00I made this point in my tweet to you Iain, but I&#...I made this point in my tweet to you Iain, but I'll make it again.<br /><br />Wayne Rooney's book was too far. I supported you in everything else you did (even when I thought it smacked of self-promotion, I supported all the book profiling).<br /><br />So, yeah, I'm going to keep subscribing, because I love what you do, and I'm just going to be a big boy and get over the fact that you thought serious politics junkies would enjoy a book about Wayne Rooney.<br /><br />Thanks for all the great work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13429950592798175047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-19298181602824253322010-06-10T00:12:17.146+01:002010-06-10T00:12:17.146+01:00Dear Q and Hampstead Owl,
I rarely read the comme...Dear Q and Hampstead Owl,<br /><br />I rarely read the comments on this website; I only did today because I wanted to say something supportive to Iain. I, and I suspect 90% of other readers, don't give a toss about your opinion and think your comments are rather rude. If you don't like the blog, why not go and read something else? I wouldn't blame Iain if he did delete your comments, which he hasn't, probably because he wants people to see what smug and self-important individuals you are. <br /><br />I enjoy reading the blog a couple of times a week but when there's nothing on it to interest me I get on with my life, rather than leaving whiny comments about it as if Iain has some sort of obligation to keep me entertained.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06107433456579220089noreply@blogger.com