This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 at 10:57 am and is filed under Tories! Tories! Tories!.


To: Webmaster

From:
Jessica Freeman
jessica.freeman@totalpolitics.com

Message:
Dear Mr Ireland,

Each week Total Politics interviews a top political blogger. Would you
be available for a phone/email interview (it’s only about ten
minutes) sometime this week?

Kind Regards,

Jess Freeman

Sent from (ip address): 81.136.230.228
Date/Time: August 11, 2010 2:22 pm

Dear Jess,

I must politely decline on the grounds that your publisher, Iain Dale, knowingly allowed me to be smeared as a paedophile, and was refusing to cooperate with the relevant criminal investigation while simultaneously libelling Tom Watson (as a smear merchant, no less) when he further smeared me as a stalker in order to mask his embarrassment.

Had you read my blog in any detail, you would know that.

Had you merely scanned the front page, you would have noticed that I also recently described your executive editor Shane Greer as an “amateur propagandist and professional bullshit artist”.

But thanks for revealing how poorly researched these invitations are. Perhaps it will make other recipients think twice before pouncing on your sincere generous exclusive ordinary offer.

Tim Ireland

PS – Ask Iain Dale why he didn’t call Patrick Mercer as he agreed (and promised) to do. He tells some people he did and gives others an excuse for why he didn’t.