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.