WelshPostBox - a put up job?

Most people who read this blog and its ilk (i.e a few Assembly researchers, a few Assembly lobbyists and and a few Assembly journalists - and that's it) will have also read the disturbing, bordering-on-the-criminal intimidation of Luke Ellis at the WelshPostBox blog.

I have too, and one thing about it has become increasingly clear over the past few days - it's a massive put up job.

Whoever is writing this blog has one of two motives - to wind people up, or to implicate someone else for the blog's existence. I rule out number one because there's no humour behind it at all.

So we are left with number two - this is an attempt to make someone look really bad. And lo and behold, the finger of blame has instantly fallen upon Ellis's employer's leadership rival, Huw Lewis and his staff.

Free Speech Wales has led the charge but, to give him credit, he has neither implicated anyone specifically nor has shown any real interest in exposing the identity of the author(s). But the usual array of cybernats have shown no such scruples, piling in with their usual poisionous abuse, smears and speculative accusation.

It's difficult to know what's to be gained by all this pathetic nonsense. Thread contributors tell us this is hurting Huw Lewis's campaign, but it's hard to know if they are just kidding themselves or trying to make it come true.

Now, I have no evidence to back up this theory at all. I have no inside knowledge. Like Free Speech Wales I do not work for a political party, I do not belong to a political party and I do not work in the Assembly. But what I do know is that the bile, smears, personal abuse and general underhand tactics in the Welsh blogosphere come pretty much exclusively from one quarter - the many cybernats who blog and comments on others' blogs.

WPB is so threatening, nasty and OTT that it's only true purpose must be to create a false impression of CyberLewis smear tactics. I don't buy it. This one's got fit-up written all over it.

I've changed my mind

When this blog acquired its very own cyber stalker I set up a parody site. I had no intention of using it, as the first post made clear.

By now that my obsessional little friend has revealed himself to by just another Plaid blogger (almost certainly a staffer, but I'll leave the question of that one open) I've decided to make use of it.

Please pay a visit.

Free Wales Speech

Good to know my personal cyber stalker, the completely-impartial-and-not-at-all-a-Nationalist-front blog "Free Wales Speech" is quick on the uptake. What a shame he's not that quick witted.

He does seem very upset that I've criticised Welsh Drivelings. That wouldn't because you ARE Welsh Drivelings, would it? Oh no.

Anyway, good to know your reading Ramblings. And good also to know that I'm being so well read in the Assembly.

In summary, we are told to believe that Welsh Blog Watch is out to stifle debate by taking the piss out of others, while Free Wales Speech is performing some sort of democratic duty by err...taking the piss out of Welsh Blog Watch.

Work that one out if you can. To me it's just another fine example of just how far up their own arses most Welsh bloggers are.

In other news, the Total Pillock Spot of the Day has to go to Glyn Davies who writes:

"This blog takes a view on..." (some load of old shit that you really don't need to know about).

Don't ya love it when people refer to their own thoughts as if someone else wrote them down?

Update: Instantly, a response goes up. It's really funny. I honestly thought some of the crap that appears on the Welsh blogosphere was about as bad as it got. It turns out all I needed to do was post a few mildly critical comments and this guy is so upset he'll dedicate his life to cyberstalking me! Brilliant.

My new blog

You might have seen a new blog that has just been created. It's called Free Speech Wales.

This blog has been created to limit my free speech and close down my debate.

So I'm setting up a new blog - the Free Speech Wales Watch blog to monitor this new sinister blog's every move and report back.

This new blog says that it may carry on even if I shut down. I might do that, as nothing else proves so clearly what a load of shite the Welsh blogosphere is than the fact that someone has actually set up a site to watch me!

Pathetic.

Today's rancid offerings

Another day, another selection of instantly forgettable drivel:

1) Valleys Mam asks whether standing for a "no frills" party would get her elected to Parliament.

No love, it wouldn't.

2) David Jones, MP went on a train. He didn't like it.

Gee. Thanks for sharing.

3) But scraping the barrel as usual is Welsh Drivelings, who has a go at deaf people. Their needs, apparently, should be ignored and priority given to Welsh speakers instead.

Thoroughly charming people these Plaidies.

You lot are pathetic...

The Welsh blogosphere loves to think of itself as some kind of new media source, challenging or complimenting the mainstream media of TV, radio and print.

Don't make me laugh. It's just a bunch of cranks and paid political hangers on talking to themselves, with a few paid hacks joining in because they've been told to by their editors.

No-one else is reading you. No-one.

Don't believe me?

Try this then. Of the last 100 pageloads to this site nearly 70 have come from two hosts: Seimens Business Services (the Welsh Assembly) and Trinity Mirror. Once you cut out other media and lobbyist organisations there's virtually no real punters at all.

So, crack on boys and girls. All the pathetic plagiarism and party political game playing is just wasting your own time.

Oh, and the taxpayers money. But then you don't care about that.

Pathetic.

And people accuse ME of bad spelling

Unlike Welsh Drivelings, at least I know the difference between "insight" and "incite".

Walescan't.com

Good to see Plaid launching a new website extolling the benefits of independence.

What a shame it seems to have broken and been off the air for several hours.

"If you wan't to see the change you've got to be the change." says Adam Price.

Perhaps we could start with just seeing the site, eh?

Welsh Ramblings' Daily Durge

"Welsh Ramblings: This is not a blog, it's a Ramble" used to run the strapline of this particularly crap example of Welsh political blogging.

No mate, it's a cut-and-paste job.

Take today's offering. On second thoughts, don't bother. It's just just two snippets stolen from the right-wing Brit Nat press this moron claims to oppose.

But of course since the particular right-wing Brit Nat press in question is having a go at Labour it's all fair game.

Strangely, despite recently pledging to "Challenge the leadership of our country" the site's author (who until recently liked to style himself after a dictator) had nothing to say about Plaid's recent chaos over tuition fees. Actually, that's not quite true - he called for Jane Hutt to resign for having been written a letter, and lied about Peter Hain attacking Jane Davidson. No pathetic and obvious attempt at diverting attention there, then. Oh no.

Cambria Politico: Trash of the Week

Nothing better sums up the complete junk that Wales's bloggers serve up than yesterday's story on Cambria Politico (which bear in mind is also supposed to be a proper magazine). Under the story "Gordon Brown snubs Welsh Labour" it claims:

Gordon Brown's message to the people of Wales on St David's Day was sent to the organisers of the National St David's day Parade in Cardiff rather than to Welsh Labour Party Leader and First Minister Rhodri Morgan to deliver, it has emerged.

Note the use of the phrase "It has emerged", as if to imply some journalistic effort in uncovering a story. This is of course horse shit because the reason it has "emerged" is because:

The message, from the Prime Minister’s office in No 10 Downing Street was sent by email to the Parade’s President Henry Jones-Davies, publisher of the national magazine Cambria.

So, in other words, Brown's people sent to message to the St David's Day Parade people for them to read out at the ceremony - which is exactly what they did. And full of warm words it was, too.

Fair enough, right? Isn't that a good thing? Presumably we want the Prime Minister to mark Wales's national day? No? Apparently not.

Henry Jones-Davies said “I was astonished that Gordon Brown chose to convey a St David’s day message to the Welsh people through our Parade Committee.

No. You got me. The it becomes clear. The reason was because no-one from the Labour Party turned up (this we are told is a "boycott", despite the later concession that on Labour AM was in fact in attendance). In other words, they're sulking.

There's lots more tedious ranting from Mr Lloyd-Davies (who by sheer co-incidence happens to be a Plaid activist). I'll spare you it, but sufficient to note the verdict for this calculated message of goodwill is that is was a "snub to Wales". Of course.

My favourite bit though is the claim that Gordon Brown should be able to send a message to the people of Wales - and dispatch Rhodri Morgan like some lackey to read it out. Had he done this, the story would have been something like:

RHODRI CONFIRMS HE IS BROWN'S POODLE

Gordon Brown and his Brit Nat NuLiebour Party yesterday confirmed what the rest of us have known for years - that he regards Rhodri Morgan and Welsh devolution as his personal property.

The First Minister was humiliated as he was FORCED to read out a patronising message of goodwill from his London masters.

Henry Lloyd-Davies said "by parroting London's so-called message Rhodri Morgan has shown his utter contempt for the people of Wales."

Cambria Politico: Trash of the Week

Last week's garbage

There's so much garbage spouted by the Welsh blogs that it's almost impossible to know where to start. So let's stick some of the highlights from last week in one post. Try this:

Welsh Ramblings says there was "an official boycott by the Wales Labour Party" of the St David's Day Rally in Cardiff.

What he means is that nobody from the Welsh Labour Party could be bothered to turn up - hardly the same thing at all. That kind of distinction doesn't matter in the Welsh blogosphere - if a boycott doesn't exist one can simply be invented.

Bethan Jenkins spends a whole post having a go at Peter Hain (don't these people have jobs?) for suggesting that "introducing top up fees is contained in the One Wales Agreement."

She complains that "This is a blatant miss-representation of the agreement, one which is also unfortunately being peddled by WAG."

What she neglects to mention is that Ieuan Wyn Jones is one of the peddlers, especially as his told this week's Dragon's Eye that "the One Wales agreement acknowledged that the position would remain as it is for this financial year and then we'd need to consider that in light of circumstances".

It's no good raging at Peter Hain, Bethan - your own leader is pushing the argument that student finance was part of the coalition deal!

Finally, how about this beauty from the Chanticleer blog (and this guy's a journalist):

"sources tell me there is now a vacancy at Transport House after the previous incumbent was briefed against by the same people who had lobbied for his appointment."

Hold the page! Someone has told this bloke that someone else has lost their job and he's prepared to write it up, without any names or any more information.

God help us if this is the future of journalism in Wales.

That's all for now. But keep reading.

Let the games begin...

Admit it: most Welsh blogs are rubbish. They spout rubbish and they recycle rubbish spouted by others - such as the mainstream press. That wouldn't be so bad, but most bloggers seem to reckon they are part of some great revolution.

After nearly two years of reading slanted, badly written and even more poorly researched rubbish, I've decided to start my own blog. Not to try and put some quality into the market, but to expose just how much complete and utter nonsense that emerges from this so-called blogosphere on a daily basis.

Clear? Good. Let's go.