Liberty Alone

Over at Iain Dale’s (he is worth reading occasionally ;) )

Wow, I didn’t realise that there was such a load of vitriol being spouted by members of the left-wing and Labour blogging community. Tim Ireland leads the charge with his usual blog and what he terms Guido Fawkes 2.0.

The latest spat is along with Tom Watson MP and Pickled Politics, Tim Ireland has made allegations claiming Guido Fawkes made a deal with the BNP whilst a student for political advantage
I believe this information was garnered from a Guardian story back in the 1980s.

Guido has responded by claiming there was a full retraction of the story and apparently by threatening legal action (against what is a serious allegation, especially towards a libertarian), hence the original posts have been removed (so my account is based upon piecing together from various places).

Frankly, I’m getting rather tired of all this. At least some of it is down to Guido and Iain’s exposure of the Smith Institute’s shady dealings with Number 11. The rest seems to be due to the dominance they have in the blogsphere.

The funny thing is that Guido is so consistently attacked as a Tory, yet he is as vitriolic against all parties, he sees all politicians as corrupt and self serving. True, Labour is in power, so they bear the brunt, but I’m sure the whatever party in power will be attacked (if he doesn’t then I shall be sorely disappointed).

It is somewhat amusing to see leftist bloggers losing it like this, but come on guys, this is so childish. Ad Hominem attacks are not edifying, debate with them over facts and with reason.