Wednesday, 5 November 2008

"Blears attacks political bloggers"

You f***ing bitch, you have just earned yourself an extra slow and painful death.

Moving swiftly on ...

Ms Blears will also attack the "deeply unhealthy" number of government jobs given to career politicians with little experience beyond Westminster... Ms Blears, who had a career as a local government solicitor before becoming an elected politician... "

Dude, WTF?

4 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

That was a good post, but they are just following The Instruction Manual

Anonymous said...

Hazel nuts is a living symbol of cynicism, she needs more stacked shoes.

Lola said...

Hb was just doing the anti blogging department thingy set up by NL. It was part of the attack plan to get her up on her hind legs (yes, really) and spout off a prepared brief. The contradictions and, well, just downright lies show this 'cos whatever Blears is she is not a good liar. (Personally I no longer listen to anything she says but quietly sit there thinking that she might do a good line in BJ's and looks to me like an 'enthusiast'. Mind you I do the same with most women now having decided that what I thought aged 18 ish was broadly the most sensible way to deal with most ladies. Doesn't work any better now than it ddid then!!)

John Pickworth said...

Ms Blears told the BBC that politicians not giving straight answers could be an issue, but said a "grown up political discourse" could only happen if people were prepared to listen.

Good advice...

So, lets start that process by getting every damn last one of those politicians listening to what we want instead of preaching to us about what they want. I suspect though that the new Minister of Blogging simply meant that the citizenry should merely listen to them.

As I've said elsewhere, creating and reading blogs is a lawful pastime enjoyed by many. It is nothing to do with the Government or their nosey Ministers and they should confine themselves to doing the jobs we actually pay them for.

And just in case anyone thinks this isn't an important issue... Just ask yourselves why someone in high office thinks its completely normal to demand that we (and our internet activities) be accountable to them. Isn't that a scary change of the fundimental relationship between the State and its people?

The Labour Government took a very dangerous step over the line today. Are we going to ignore it?