Ali Campbell Complains About the Blogosphere
"The blogosphere is very right wing at the moment. We need more voices out there to counter it" he told 200 mugs who had paid hard cash (£15) to hear Campbell plug his book - "perfect for Dad for Christmas" at a fringe event last night.
Chris Hope in the Telegraph agrees: it is the right-wing blogs that are shaping coverage in the dead-tree-press.
We know the ususal Tory suspects he is talking about - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale and Tim Montgomerie's. There are left-wing blogs like LabourHome but they seem to lack the spikiness and must-read edge of Guido, for example.After a lot of thought about this, Guido has come to a simple conclusion as to why British left-wing blogs are unsuccessful. It is not because Labour is in government. It is because they are boring.
65 comments:
Yup.
If you are reading this Campbell - fuck off, you vain cunt. A man for whom history will reserve its finest venom, on account of his assistance in destroying this once fine country. He has helped turn a green and pleasant land into a grey, unpleasant land....
Ooh, provocative. As you've proved in the last week, you're about as connected to what's going on in the blogosphere as Campbell is.
Go back to what you know like totty and pisspoor photoshopping.
LabourHome is a joke. I went to it during and after Brown's conference speech and there was no visible mention. ConservativeHome gave it the full live blogging treatment. Even the right wing blogs cover left wing politics better than the supposed left wing blogosphere can manage!
Guido do you have a nice graph of left vs right wing blog stats?
The right-wing can scream all they like from their blogs. They're fucked at the next election and they know it.
Are not mostly english conservatives child-molesters? it is of this case in the eastern european countries and i am lead to believe similarities are existing. you think?
Guido neglects to include the fact that Campbell only got on to the subject of blogging at all because he was asked about it explicitly. It's not important, guys.
Was that boring or booring?
The blogs are right that Gavin Barwell is sniffing around Croydon Central. Following his presidence over a number of deselections around 2005 he is hovering like a vulture around the dying corpse of Pelling. It is possible he will be imposed on Croydon. The interesting thing is the tory party is happy to suspend a MARRIED HETROSEXUAL MP who alledgedly SMACKS his wife across the kisser, and engage proceedings to deselect him, but is happy to preside support and spend money to prevent a deselection of a single GAY TORY candidate who told lies when he was challenged following a brawl where he got stabbed in the neck.
The Press are going to have a field day on this one.
Its because the people that actually vote Labour only do so to get their hands on tax credits and otherwise don't give a stuff about politics and are as likely to vote BNP as Labour in any given circumstance. There are only a handful of apparatchiks on the Left leading these gormless fools and these are either in the Labour Party itself or working for the Beeb or the Guardian. So there is no-one actually available on the left to write blogs.
Blogging about blogging, who gives a shit?
Right-wing blogs aren't helping the opinion polls. You can be spiky all you like but nobody's listening. You can call Gordon Brown a queer bummer all you like but he's still going to beat you.
Glad to see Fred Said is a sad bastard who has seen sexual tolerance pass his by.
All left-wingers are cunts, else why would they believe (if they do) in a failed ideology.
Cunts are invariably boring, to wit; Gay Gordo, Darling, Millipede, Bollocks, Hain, Hewitt, Harman et all, or just plain thick and thuggish, a la Prescunt, Reid, and McWotsisname, the unintelligible Scots ignoramus.
Not an ounce of excitement or interest amongst the whole grey shower, including that world class asshole Campbell.
Nuu-Liebore are a bit like a computer, put in shit, out comes shit.
All this would hilarious if it wasn't so fucking pathetic: "My blogs bigger than your blog!" Meanwhile in the real world...
It's just the same as Radio shows in the US, the left-wing blogs don't have the loud mouth ranting style required to stir up a fuss. I also can't really see them trying to pick off the government in public, whats the alternative??!...will be interesting to see if they get some fire in their bellies if there is ever another conservative government
I visited CCO the other day. The place tells you why we are going to get thrashed at the next election. The place was like little Britain with bum boys swaggering around everywhere. They were just missimg their blue Plastic shiny shorts.
Fred is right above, the tory party is the woofter party, and has lost its mainstream normal tories.
"loud mouth ranting style"
interesting thoughts torybelle...i rest my case
i suppose the truth is boring, when compared to out right lies.
Bum boys to the right of them,
Bum boys to the left of them,
Into the valley of Death
Rode Guido's latent homosexual readers.
The problem is a large amount of the MSM are instinctively left wing and self censure (see BBC output on just about anything)- giving the failures of New Labour an easy time, and giving the blogsphere so much material to work with.
Anon 3:57 - if you think destroying Britain in terms of its constitution, economy ( fuelled by debt), pensions, armed services, educations system ( devalued by garde inflation - as Balls-up has just admitted), selling out to a foreign power (the EU) is boring then you must be a brainwashed socialist.
What type of losers would pay £15 to hear Campbell plug a book which he's sanatised? - People who go to Labour conferences I suppose! I've just sold my house, in the proccess of converting my £s and clearing out of the country in November. Back to the Far EAst and Oz. I've never lived under a more vile political regime than Brown's NuLab. And to think they'll get voted in if an election comes soon!
It's cos it's the only voice we have anymore - all the dead-tree and broadcast media is stuffed full of Brownite toadies. The fact they bemoan we exist at all says a lot about their views on healthy debate. Nothing gets up a leftie's nose more than knowing and seeing the right thriving - even if it is only on the blogsphere.
"Fred is right above, the tory party is the woofter party, and has lost its mainstream normal tories."
The Tories are the woofter party? I'm not quite sure what you make of the LimpDems then....
Yup – I guess that says it all for the sad pricks - don’t bother me with thorts . . . or if you do, let them be ones I can shout slogans (that someone has put into my tiny mind) at . .
"Nothing gets up a leftie's nose more than knowing and seeing the right thriving - even if it is only on the blogsphere."
On the contrary - it's so much fun seeing you only having blogs left. Your pissing in the wind.
The Blogosphere is one of the last bastions of politically incorrect thought and as the MSM have run up the white flag or joined Gordon's Fan Club it's the only place where you get criticism of this God-Awful Government and it's Control Freak PM.
Blogging's CB Radio for the socially retarded.
Blogs are for saddos caught wanking by mummy.
Note "Camp bell" and co always refer to right-wing never LIBERTARIAN.
I predict that when eventually we get a Conservative government it will be almost as Fascist as this one plainly and obviously is.
Thats not Cameron's or the Conservative Party's fault. It is ours and the rest of the British voting publics eternal shame.
It is libertarian values which are the moral Randian heart and soul of Conservatism. It is LIBERTY itself that is under daily attack from the MSM and the BBC in particular.
It is not the Labour party that have gone blue. They are as fundamentally fascist as they have always been. But if we are not very careful indeed the Conservative Party will go ever more semi-fascist, just to have any chance of government at all.
Then we will see not a good showing for right wing libertarian blogs we will have an explosion of them.
Swiftly followed by them being completely BANNED by the EU.
The fascist left have the BBC, The EU and Murdoch, which says all there is to say on the matter of left-wing blogs. i.e. They are completely surplus to requirement.
Mike - go away you sad old fart
Facsist, fascist, fascist. Will you fuckers grow up or at least read a history book. You fucking drama queen cunts.
I'd rather be right-wing than wrong-wing. Lola
There's nothing like the sound of a moaning homophobe with an imaginary grievance. Were you twats bullied at school?
Havn't you Nu Lab trollers got a blog to go to?
Of course ZaNuLab bovver boys were creaming themselves when those darn Harvard attending yanks came up with MoveOn.Org "What a fucking brilliant idea" they all said
Shame 10 years of ZaNuLab education means they can't fucking work a computer.
45gov gets my vote
Haven't you got a CBeebies webpage to fisk?
"I'd rather be right-wing than wrong-wing."
you mean ... "I'm alright-wing, fuck everybody else"
"I'd rather be right-wing than wrong-wing."
thats why the tories keep losing is it, because they're right?
Some of you lot obviously belong in kindergarten cos that's the standard of your posts..( It's Labour's new education policy: get toddlers to learn computers by posting on blogs)
Perhaps left wing people don't blog because they have jobs???
Campbell's book was well and truely in the bargin bin in my local Borders last night.. oh dear oh dear..
And girlfriends.
Left wingers are waiting for the government to set up blogs for them.
Right wingers are waiting for bloggers to set up governments for them.
Mike, we all know very well that after three heart attacks you are very dependent on the wonderful NHS to keep you alive. So it will be with great sadness that we will miss your erudite postings shortly after the economy goes down the pan and you have a fourth heart attack when you see how much food prices have risen and your pension won't stretch to pay for it. You see, at roughly the same time your Labour government will announce that it can't afford free health-care for all because it has fucked up the economy so badly, and in any case all the foreign nurses have gone back home.
You've been around for quite a while Mike, but you haven't learnt a thing. There is no such thing as a free lunch....
Right wing in nulabspeak means not agreeing with Brown - so there is no wonder that there are so many right wing blogs!
And girlfriends.
Sexist scum! "And cohabiting lifestyle partners of their preferred, non-specific gender orientation."
Wrong. Haven't you heard, proper right-wingers would never be bummers.
More boasting posts Guido. The New Labour rapid rebuttal unit is soooo amusing.
Gobby claims,
"Blogs are for saddos caught wanking by mummy."
Profoundly advised by a person..... on a Blog.
Gobby's vote is worth as much as everybody elses vote in our democracy...so for all you NUlabs on this site... it must be that the utterances of Gobby are worth as much as everybody elses...its just logic innit...vote BROWN you know it makes sense???
Campbell complaining?!. . . . Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha . . . . Campbell? . . . Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha . . . . complains about something he has no control over? . . . . Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha . . . .
I think Alastair is probably correct here.
There are more right wing bloggers who blog away in their little shorts all day and there are very few of us upstanding, decent, honourable and truthful manly socialist bloggers, who blog.
But the stark truth is that the Labour bloggers get it mostly correct most of the time and the Tory bloggers lie their Nazi jackbooted bollocks off!
Gary
After a lot of thought about this, Guido has come to a simple conclusion as to why British left-wing blogs are unsuccessful. It is not because Labour is in government. It is because they are boring.
Not only that, which is all true, but they are deluded, sad twats who have nothing of any substance at all to say other than the usual diatribe against anything Tory.
As for Campbell there is a very descriptive word that conjures him up...cunt
It is because the lefties tend to be humourless priggs.
Just because the 'wrong wing' is 'winning' as in - less people vote for them the other parties combined - does not mean they are right. Maybe it's only because a jerrymandered and distorted version of democarcy enables this. Put it this way. We have had government by Big Brother C4 Version and now we have Government by Big Brother George Orwell version. Brown is a deceitful politician and can only stay in power as long as he can buy off voters with their own money. Once the merry go round stops - curtains. But as Big Brother (GO version) we will get more and more Newspeak. And his next trick will be to save indebted voters by using inflation. Get real Socialism has only ever destroyed capital. Free Market conservatism creates it. Thinking about it, he is the most deceitful politicain since H Wilson. Lola.
I would not put it past this government to now set up a blogging website enlisting the aid of Jeremy Hardy, Marcus Brigstock and Mark Steele(tedious left wing cunts the lot). Thatcher and Bush jokes de riguer of course. BBC audiences seem to lap it up, so we could be in for a real treat.
Alastair old chum,
There is a difference between being right wing and having a constitutional loathing for canting hypocrisy and a fear that the vestiges of democracy are disappearing under the aegis of Mr Brown and his sycophantic minions in the main stream media.
Maybe I should except channel 4 in the wake of this week's Dispatches.
"The blogosphere is very right wing at the moment. We need more voices out there to counter it"
More Leftie idiots hasn't and doesn't make a difference. It's one thing trying to counter the Right and quite another to succeed. Why doesn't Campbell have a go if he's such a master debater?
As a stornch humourless leftie, I look upon libertarian rightwingers as dangers to our dream of a world socialist utopian society. Once we silence these free thinking bastards and impose our freedom loving rules and regulations, - starting with banning all subversive blogs and then stringently regulating the others – we can begin the final glorious initiatives to assist people to think correctly, and make correct choices about what they write and say.
Typical socialist crap confusing "more" with "better".
Socialist bloggers need quantity to make up for their inferior quality of posting.
See gary elsby (of stoke) above.
QED.
Maybe po face is joking, I can't tell these things, but anyway why have these opinions, really guys, I mean I just like to know I'm in the right, which means I have the right opinions the same as everyone else has, so I don't get into trouble, you have to watch people like Gordon Brown and Polly Toynbee, then you know you're ok, otherwise I get scared, then you know, I starting wetting the bed, and mummy kicks me and says "get out of my bed you little shit!"
Anyway work at the BBC tomorrow, night all!
Praguetory said - "Why doesn't Campbell have a go if he's such a master debater?" The last couple of words are an excellent piece of rhyming slang and sums up Campbell completely. Lola
Shotgun, I am of the opinion that your postings are intended to offend rather than inform.
So why don't you just fuck off and die somewhere?
If Ali is so bothered about this why does he not have his own blog rather than try and sell us his book?
He could even have some sort of tax funded cash incentive scheme to compensate the public for time spent reading it.
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