Clegg
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I’d say that Clegg is much more robust than Cameron. Morally, intellectually and – if he could more readily embrace the politics we all know he advocates – ideologically.

The Tories are much, much stronger in the background, and I don’t think DC is a very good front man. Just my opinion, obviously.

Blair did this

Yeah but what David Cameron? What humanity does he have?

He’s a suit. A PR goon.

Left wing people are good at giving other people’s money away but bloody awful at buying you a drink ( and talk about bitchy ! ) Emotionally I find there is a common humanity between Old Labour , Conservatives Some Liberals but not the preachy ones as against New Labour and its Fabian fellow travellers.

I suppose the name “troll” is established usage by now, but I prefer to think of them as Randettes, after Ayn Rand, whose miserabilist rationalisation of selfishness is – whether they know it or not – their true political philosophy.

These guys are pretty rubbish. We may get a better quality of troll if we pay for it.

How do you deal with left-wing trolls?

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered one. There are far-left trolls, like Neil Clark, but thankfully they generally shout abuse from their own blogs. And most left-wing trolls are usually civil when pointing out what an utter bastard you are in academic language. I’ve never seen any left-wingers here trying to destroy conversations.

Job’s Tempter: I sometimes pop over to Cranmer’s blog to point out what a miserable, life-denying woman-hater he is. We’re never going to win a rational debate with these guys, but shouldn’t we point out from time to time that we’re on their case?

Ahh, ok I’ll put my hand up and admit I’ve done the same. But I’m not persistent, I just like abusing Cranmer once in a while… he’s not worth my time. Whereas the right-wing trolls we get here seem to be on automation (apart from newmania, who generates new gibberish every time) and keep repeating the same thing.

But absolutely: your blog, your rules.

Of course, it would have to be someone who’d been seconded to the “department of troll comment moderation policy” from one of the accountancy firms who’d set-up the terms and conditions of the PFI contract in the first place…

This way it could be outsourced to Crapita, say, and he could then pay them for the next 20 years for the privilege of having offensive comments go un-deleted for days, regular contributors being mis-labelled as trolls, and eventually having to get further consultants in who’ll conduct a 3-day seminar (at a very expensive country hotel, naturally) on “progressing towards a definition of a ‘troll’ within a paradigm of an increasingly fluid marketplace dynamic”.

Just a thought…

Um. Where, exactly? Because I suspect we might be talking at cross purposes. I have a feeling that my “having a conversation with someone I disagree with” might be your “feeding the trolls”. Correct me if I’m wrong.

If you’d have told me this morning that we could be having a debate with right wingers about the differences between Sweden and the UK on “broken families” despite family demographic similarities, or a discussion about how to shame, dissuade or punish “trolls” I know which I would have chosen…

Personally I’d prefer you to have the courage of your convictions and delete ‘trolls’ leaving a blank space and a name – or follow the example of Slugger with their “sin bin”.

How do you deal with left-wing trolls?

Tra La

And this.

Trouble is, he’s had form for the latter at least, as well as lazy variations on ‘you liberals are [insert cliché here]‘. The politeness of some LC commenters in engaging with him just feeds his ego, and enables him to derail every single thread on this blog. If Sunny’s not going to ban him, the only alternative is ‘Do Not Feed the Trolls’.