blogging liars

Political bloggers come from both sides of the political spectrum, but you can tell them apart.

Political bloggers on the right (that includes me) are quieter than any of the others.

We just get on with the job and we pursue the intellectual and moral high grounds.

The smelly skanky behaviour of the lefties involves forming school gangs and yelling abuse and insults.

For example, David Allen Green wrote a blog in last week’s New Statesman which was verbally aggressive.

I’m not too sure how a piece of writing could be ‘verbally aggressive’, but it was and I say so and if you disagree with me I’ll see you behind the bikesheds and kick your teeth in.

In that heinous, verbally aggressive blog he accused me personally (I like the ring of that. Accused me personally. Class)  of attacking a constituent via my own blog.

He failed to mention that in an email from Kerry McCarthy MP, to Glen Owen, at the Mail on Sunday, that constituent was described as ‘the local Labour party organiser’.

And, let’s face it, I’m not in the business of helping smelly skanky lefties, even if they are my constituents.

I would like to add another difference between those of us who blog on the right, and those who blog over there on the left. They lie.

David Allen Green won a blogging award last year.

For deliberately making such misleading statements on his blog?

Because, let’s be honest, I would never make misleading statements on my blog.

As I told the parliamentary complaints investigators.

Except for the bits which aren’t true, obviously.

Inspiration:

forsaking passive/aggressive threats

I am being stalked.

Tim Ireland of the excellent infamous website Bloggerheads, has been on the phone to a charity I support, this morning.

He has the temerity to ask probing questions about their status. How dare he?

He has been making the usual inappropriate comments etc. Or comments that only I believe to be inappropriate, but that’s all that counts anyway.

And he has been using the Tim Ireland, agressive ‘I have a right to know all about you’ style.

How dare he?

Really, how dare he ask questions?

How dare he exercise a right to know?

I, Tim, as an elected member, am expected, even though you aren’t one of my constituents, to take your intrusive questioning.

I am expected to tolerate your inappropriate level of intense attention, as were the MPs you harassed before me.

Members of the public are not.

If you put into place your usual method of operation of:

• making continuous telephone calls (how dare you!)
• blogging (the nerve of you! To be blogging!)
• blitz emailing thousands of ranting words etc to people going about their daily business  (people have a right to go about their daily business, you know!)…

I am sure the Police may take a strong view.

You have been warned, in my very best passive/aggressive way.

I will not tolerate anyone else being subjected to your intense, inappropriate, abusive behaviour, simply because they have some, even the most distant, association to me.

I know the police would not lift a finger to help me, but there’s nothing to stop me from asking them to step in to help someone else who is not a constituent of mine.

Oh dear. I seem to have accidentally accused a named person of conducting criminal acts, and thus, left myself wide open to legal action of defamation!

Please disregard this, Tim.

With much love and best regards,

Your friend.

x

Inspiration:

inspiration

I have had a rather complementary comment from [removed]@parliament.uk who asked me where I get my inspiration for each entry from?

The answer is simple, I am greatly inspired by Nadine Dorries MP and take a great deal of inspiration from the, umm, inspiring things she writes on her website.

But, it occurs to me, if you don’t know this, you would have nothing to compare back to the original; you would be unable to see precisely how, umm, inspiring and great Nadine Dorries is.

So from now on – and I will try to find the time to do this retrospectively too – I will put a link at the foot of each of my entries, so you can see where my inspiration comes from.

But not this one, obviously, because this has come about from a question that a dear reader has left me.

no smoke without… smoke

The American corporation ‘Covanta’ want to build something called ‘an incinerator’ in my Bedworthshire constituency.

The people in my constituency are worried by this development and some have organised speakers and protests.

Naturally, even though I don’t actually live in my constituency, I have chosen to support my people.

That’s the kind of person I am.

So I have written to our wonderful Prime Minister and head of my political party and pledged that I will continue to support the view that the Conservative Party must continue to receive financial funding from Covanta and that Covanta must be allowed to continue to successfully bid for PFI contracts.

I feel good that I have given my unequivocal support on this issue.

Inspiration:

mayday

I am going to amend the EDM which is posted below. Or perhaps it isn’t. But do keep up, you’ll get the gist.

I’m am toying with the idea of launching a campaign to scrap May 1st as a Bank holiday and replace with Armed Forces Day as the Bank holiday in June.

After all, no other country in the world celebrates May 1st as a Bank holiday.

Except for the Republic of Ireland.

And Germany.

And France.

And Sweden.

And Finland.

Anyway.

This would seem to be a good way to mark and register appreciation for our Armed Forces.

I also have it on very good authority that this idea may also be well received – because doing it this way (and here’s the clever bit) – we don’t have to give the proles *another* Bank Holiday, do we?

I mean, it’s one thing for us MPs to have our breaks, but we don’t want the public to have any more time off!

This is brilliant!

Off to the table office again!

Inspiration:

stats

I don’t understand them so I will have them translated tomorrow. I will get an expert to do it and he will charge money for his services and I will claim that charge back from Parliament because that’s the way the system works.

It’s a fair system because why should I pay for it?

I don’t get what ‘page views’ means if my blog is just a rolling page. Is this because I’m stupid?

It’s not like you click from one page to another. Unless you do, of course.

Anyway, it’s a lot!! It’s so many that I’ve used two exclamation marks!!! Now I’ve just used three!!!! And four!

What was it Noel Coward said?

You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.

Inspiration:

selfless heroes

I shall be travelling from my lovely Gloucestershire home to my lovely London apartment today.

While I am en route on my First Class publicly-funded train journey, I shall sip the wine, eat the wonderful lunch that is provided, and I shall put the finishing touches to the first stage of a campaign I want to mount to raise public awareness and thankfulness for the sacrifices made by those of us who serve the public.

Repeated negative broadcasting and reporting throughout the Parliamentary season has impacted badly upon serving Members of Parliament.

Rarely do broadcasters commend the public-serving troops.

A colleague member of the House of Commons, who had just returned to Gloucestershire from a hideous tour of their constituency in the north of England, said ‘you would just like to know that you have the support of people at home when you are out there, but you don’t, not really.’

This was someone who had worked almost four hours a day in central London, before having to endure public transport on ‘the underground’, as I believe it is called.

These men and women are literally in the front line fighting extremism and terrorism at its worst in order that we can maintain the freedom to criticise the very wars they are fighting.

In America, politicians are regarded as heroes.  It’s not the case here.

The wording of the EDM will be as follows;

That this House recognises the risks taken and the sacrifice made by all Members of Parliament. This House also recognises the need to encourage public support for the dedication and bravery shown by those serving in Westminster and Gloucestershire and to use every opportunity available the House presents to raise public awareness and appreciation towards those serving their Queen and country.

Inspiration: