I see at least one other blogger has found their way to Village Vermin and their reaction rather mirrors my own thoughts.

What a complete bag of shit!

Look, read the disclaimer, run a WHOIS on the domain if you like (the owner listed a Party Animals Production Ltd) it amounts to the same this, a piss-poor attempt to create a viral advert for the programme using a fake blog on the premise that somehow we’ll all find a bunch of fake online gossip interesting – and on, I might add, with the weirdest blogroll I think I’ve ever seen – I mean who the fuck blogrolls the Downing Street website?

How fucking dumb can you get?

Via Tim in the comments, I find myself strangely drawn to an article from The Register from late December…

Comment The internet has always offered a stage for dramatic reinvention. Corporate lobbyists have found it a suitable theatre for AstroTurfing, given the willingness of a net audience to suspend its disbelief. Now, internet television lets professional politicians play the role of citizen-reporter.

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Well, I’ve now had to chance to review Iain Dale’s Fox News Lite smear story, sorry, report on the Smith Institute and my immediate reaction is…

…is that it?

Okay, I will say the video is worth watching just for the section on Bob Shrum’s comments about David Cameron, which I thought was brilliant, especially the bit about Cameron being a shameless opportunist… - Continue Reading...

Christ, the more you dig around in places like Fox News Lite, the more seriously scary wing-nuttery you uncover.

Michael Ehioze-Ediae is a bit of new one on me, although a quick Google search adds membership of the Conservative Christian Fellowship (quelle surprise) and a recent debut on ‘Conservative Home Television’ (produced by Fox News Lite, naturally)… - Continue Reading...

Look, I really do have to say this…

On a day that news of Lord Levy being arrested and questioned on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in relation to the ‘loans for peerages’ allegations just in time for the early evening news, and with the Tories crawling all over the Smith Institute like a rash and, amongst other matters, targetting it for having… - Continue Reading...

News reaches me via Tim at Bloggerheads that Thatcherite ex-union basher (and proud of it) and astroturfer-in-chief, Paul Staines, is trailing an appearance on Fox News Lite by the ever-so-impartial and anti-establishment Iain Dale, Tory A-lister and trustee of the completely ‘independent’ charitable think-tank, Policy Exchange – that’s one with a rat’s nest of Tories as its governing body,… - Continue Reading...

Luke Akehurst seems a tad incredulous today:

What readers seem to want … is second hand leaked documents already stuck on Tory blogs…

Yesterday’s Hain leak post is now the second most recommended post ever on bloggers for Labour: http://www.bloggers4labour.org/recommended.jsp

and got 556 hits, which I think is the highest readership I’ve ever had in a single day.

Whilst carefully thought out

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Was mucking around with Google over lunchtime when I came across a very old (October 1999) BBC ‘Talking Point’ that contains a couple of rather familiar names.

The question is ‘How will history view John Major?’ – this predates public knowledge of the whole business of shagging Edwina Currie, and there lurking in the comments we have this:

He may have been decent

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Over the weekend I thought I’d take a little time to leaf through the upcoming Private Members’ Bills to see what the backbenches are up to, and turned up a few interesting snippets of possible legislation which need to watched closely.

First, and most important of all, we have this two clause bill, introduced by Conservative MP David MacLean, which attempts to give… - Continue Reading...

This is going to be a long post, even by my standards, but I’d ask you to bear with me as the information it contains is most illuminating.

Paul Staines, who blogs under the psedonym ‘Guido Fawkes’ has recently run a series of typically snide posts about a registered charity, The Smith Institute.

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