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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at
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The UK Political Blog Guide [2009]
This video contains everything you need to know about the current state of political blogging in the UK in a smidgen over a minute, and stars all of the main players in the grubby-on-all-sides Draper/McBride ‘smeargate’ affair.
PS – Iain Dale and Paul Staines still refuse to show any evidence proving their repeated claims of a Downing Street conspiracy against either or both of them specifically, but they are dishonestly grouping this unseen email with the published email(s) and insisting that they have evidence to prove their conspiracy claim. Iain Dale has already made one false claim about this. There’s every reason to be suspicious about the personal conspiracy claim too, so… Let’s. See. The. Evidence.
UPDATE – Yeah, I noticed this, too; Iain Dale, in a typical abuse of the power that comes with added publicity, used the opportunity to press his false narrative about the right’s dominance of the blogosphere.
By Piers April 14, 2009 - 2:32 pm
The flash file doesn't seem to want to load in chrome/firefox 3/IE7.
By Manic April 14, 2009 - 3:05 pm
Sorry, Piers. Server was choking on a fresh upload, so you were trying to download an incomplete SWF file. Fixed now.
By Dave Cole April 14, 2009 - 3:43 pm
LOL.That is all.xD.
By Paul S April 14, 2009 - 4:20 pm
Dear Mr Ireland,This is great.The crude nature of your video sums up the entire situation perfectly.Good day to you, sir.
By Dave Cole April 14, 2009 - 5:10 pm
I think the headlines on the newspapers are genius.xD.
By AdamB April 14, 2009 - 6:16 pm
Huzzah!
By Professor Paul April 14, 2009 - 8:13 pm
Magnificent.Tory smears or labour smears;when it come to Dale,Staines & Draper it's like trying to decide the order of precedence between a louse,a flea & a leech.
By oyebilly April 14, 2009 - 9:56 pm
Sums the whole thing up perfectly. I failed to heed your warning and accidentally had the speakers up maximum volume.Nobody overheard though.
By jailhouselawyer April 14, 2009 - 10:20 pm
Brilliant video. As I said over at Iain Dale's Diary, "Tim Ireland is a genius".
By Sim-O April 14, 2009 - 11:13 pm
*Applause*
By Guy Gooberman April 15, 2009 - 11:00 am
A smashing piece of work, I particularly liked all the shit flying about.
By Dave Cole April 15, 2009 - 1:07 pm
Did you paint Staines' nose red, or did you find a photo of him one over the eight?xD.
By Manic April 15, 2009 - 3:19 pm
The red nose was enhanced for artistic purposes.:o)