Comments on: Iain Dale’s (biased) 2008-9 Guide to Political Blogging in the UK

By: Manic

Manic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:28:59 +0000

1. Shh! I still owe D-Notice a t-shirt.2. I am shocked and appalled that Iain is capable of overhype.3. In other news, Iain and Paul have 'heard rumours' and can 'confirm reports' involving money, MSM, and their mates. A 'five figure sum' is involved.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:42:45 +0000

I've been debating whether to post about this for nearly a year now, but what the heck …I was the 'lucky' winner of last year's supposed 'political books & films' prize, and I was actually quite chuffed and looked forward with some anticipation to receiving the haul. Which, as it turned out, was a massive let-down. When I say that the absolutely dire film 'Wimbledon' was one of the highlights, you'll understand what I mean. And the political connection was tenuous at best for several of the items. It was as though a particularly over-efficient cleaner had trawled through Dale's study and thrown items into the postbag at random.At the time I considered posting a full inventory and letting people judge for themselves, but decided not to (at least partly because of Dale's nastiness to those who dare cross him). But now the issue's back on the blogging agenda, I thought I'd mention it for your amusement …

By: Manic

Manic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:24:38 +0000

Well, now you've done it. I'm flying into a rage as we speak.

By: BenSix

BenSix — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:35:21 +0000

Is it merely a coincidence that the latest headline is "How Long Before Ireland is Punished"?

By: Manic

Manic — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:02:22 +0000

Hahahaha! According to the latest spin on this, everybody who refuses to participate is afraid of charting poorly.

By: Sim-O

Sim-O — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:55:21 +0000

I'm not taking part 'cos I'm a lazy bugger and can't really be arsed. In fact I'm surprised I'm leaving this comment about it.

By: Professor Paul

Professor Paul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:22:18 +0000

And you can guarantee that the right wing will claim it proves they are the most popular.Bigdaddymerk, I have to say that I object to you calling Iain Dale a twat, for taking the term in it's most literal sense, a twat has one use. One more than Iain Dale has.Tim, you can't begrudge Iain a vote of some sort.As we've both observed, he can only win a vote when he controls the result. A sort of bloggers Mugabe if you will.

By: Manic

Manic — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:38:16 +0000

Oh, and if you try to pull him up on it, the guy who declared himself in charge of 'the' chart demands to know who put you in charge of the blogosphere.

By: Manic

Manic — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:35:01 +0000

Yes, comments will play up from time to time. Sorry about that.Thanks for taking the time. A welcome rendition of a common observation:"A measure of his hypocrisy is that he never accuses anonymous posters of cowardice if they are attacking one of his opponents." ('ahs benton')http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2008/01/that...He runs and hides behind the sock-puppets on his website all too often, but he fails to understand (or admit to) his role in popularising the false-face/flaming nonsense that undermines us all.

By: bigdaddymerk

bigdaddymerk — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:15:18 +0000

I think it's the countless shameful hypocrisy that Iain shows. Not so much with his editorial or his part in the so called 'blog wars' but in his comments. If he posts about one of his mates he'll say something along the lines of 'I think X is getting too much criticism' or 'I've never been so shocked at the level of bile shown towards X', however on the very same website he allows some truly awful comments to be posted towards others – one example that springs to mind is a comment about an Labour member that suggested the best thing he could do was to go away have another massive heart attack and die. It's real nasty stuff, yet if someone has a pop at him he cries like a big girl. I can't be doing with him, he is the Walter Mitty of blogging in my mind – and that's just one of the reasons I think he's a twat.p.s. is your comments section playing up again?