Surely that’s what you’d expect from the Tories?

It is a pity that the Tories need everyone else to explain why their European allies are a sick bunch….

Which I suppose means that the Tories are thick as well as unscrupulous.

Further, neither he nor anyone else here should feel answerable to you on the issue of sock-puppeting at all; you have clearly stated that you enjoy following me about and taking every opportunity you get to slag me off and call me a ‘c**t’, attacking my reputation without risk to your own. That is classic sock-puppeting and even if anyone here HAD made a comment anonymously at some stage, it is nowhere as bad as the crap you admit you pull. (If you’re going to chuck Bible quotes about like you did earlier, have a quick look about what it says about motes and beams.)

What you have stated as fact above is incorrect and all ass-backwards, but I will point out that I have been open about my work for every MP, party and interest group I have done work for. The best you can offer is that you’re not a member of any given party, which does not stop you working for a lobbying group, for example, or a government department (not that any reassurances on these additional fronts would mean anything from an anonymous attack dog like yourself).

Oh, I know that you’re not Iain. Tom.

Well, the comments policy is quite clear. If you can’t read it’s not my problem.

Thousands of astroturf comments? Proof? Tamuchlybyesies.

MadFrankFisher chats out of his arse so much it’s a surprise he can see out of it. It’s typical of this idiot libertarian types to assume that anyone who says something different to them must be astroturfing. Who needs proof eh?
Anyway, Fisher, can’t you take the hint and fuck off when you’re asked so many times to stop polluting this blog? Don’t have any friends eh?

It’s all yours duck.

Incidentally, “Lassie” spoke about declaring your interests. Here are mine – I’m not a member of any political party, nor do I ever wish to be one. What about your interests then, Tim? You’ve worked for all three major political parties at one point or another, yet I don’t see you declaring that. Why not?

It’s not exactly a secret that they do ‘black ops’. Indeed, one Tory of my acquaintances was quite happy to boast about it having after a couple of drinks…

Thousands of astroturf comments? Proof? Tamuchlybyesies.

Oops now that I have done a google search and found the 1986 Guardian article about Staines that seems to be making people nervous* I suddenly realise that my comment (#73) was strangely accurate.

[*] It ain’t difficult to find, just find out the name he used at university (see his wikipedia page) and google it and 1986. Staines behaviour over this is hypocritical.

I graduated in 1986, but I remember that during my undergraduate years the FCS were a despicable, arrogant lot. One member was thrown out of the university half way through his first year for spray-painting a swastika on the side of a halls of residence (the 1986 Guardian article reminded me of this incident). The reason the university gave was that he had been thrown out for “vandalism”. That action caused disquiet amongst students because, of course, a swastika is more than just vandalism. The same student started again at the university the following October. As an FCS student he wore button-down shirts and suit trousers (I don’t know if he went on his ‘community arts course’ dressed like that). At the beginning of the following October he approached me in the student union bar, now wearing dungarees and t-shirt, and told me “I’m one of you now, I changed my mind over the summer”. Twat.

Basically clowns like him were the cream of the FCS at the university I attended, and it appears that Staines was a second rate version at Hull.

“Let’s have a Left vs. Right drinking contest.”

Cheesy, I’m up for that

“Guido can drive all the Tories home afterwards…”

Phew, thank god that I’m not a Tory…

::grin::

“I even caught some of them pretending one of the candidates had died overnight on the eve of poll.”

Reminds me of when I was at university and a Trotskyist friend was standing for Union president. One morning at 5am an undertaker knocked on his door asking for his (deceased) body. That was quite funny, the numerous pizza deliveries were just tedious. The perpetrators were, of course, the Federation of Conservative Students. And lo and behold, Guido was a leading light of the FCS.

Guido, that just won’t do.

You make a big thing about how you are such a lauded “libertarian”, and that you are safe because your publisher and hosting are offshore, so it just won’t do to say that you have information that you won’t publish. It sounds rather cowardly. If you have information then publish it, if not then don’t claim that you do.

Entering into shabby backroom deals with Murdoch to give away the farm in return for a bit of Brown bashing and now this.

Never mind , now Guido has signed up as a Cameron stooge, there is no end to their unpleasantness.

“Gush of the verbose”? I like that. It would make a good name for a blog. Can I has it?

*Standing ovation*

Guido can drive all the Tories home afterwards…

And bloody hell if Martin Coxall is getting a gush of the verbose, there is plenty to be done to secure the quality of people commentating here by developing a decent account and identity system, it is not impossible.

Nice to see StopBoris and Tim Ireland providing some further context and evidence of this behaviour.

And nice to see so many people miss the point that the article does not call it a campaign, some people are not reading and showing up their partizan nature.

kojak:

You’ve missed the point, it is not about limiting comments to those that agree only, where had that been said? It’s about people being paid to run interference.

And I’m not a massive fan of people from opposite ends of the political spectrum trolling others blogs, it doesn’t create debate, just tedious back and forth.

But I do agree that I am surprised there isn’t more sock-puppeting here.

That this might include people working for all the parties is hardly surprising.

You’re not going to get a bunch of Bebo members hanging around here (unless they are experiencing a very troubled childhood).

Or should comments be limited to people who agree wholeheartedly?

As far as wind up merchants / imposters go – this site doesn’t identify the posters beyond their sign in name, so I’m surprised there aren’t more here.