Comments on: A miserable storm in a teacup

By: Anonmouse

Anonmouse — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:57:23 +0000

Backward Dave, you are a coward not posting in one identity. How very dare you!

PS Hi Athena!

By: Athena Murphy

Athena Murphy — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:55:19 +0000

It is remarkable that a few people have named little old me as one of the people to ‘start’ the campaign against Inigo Wilson. My comments below Wilson’s blog were on the 15th August and the campaign had started on at least the 11th August (see MPAC’s thread on the matter). It is probably just another example of Tories not being able to look further than the end of their own noses however. Incidentally, I would not be ashamed to admit it if it were indeed myself that had got the ball rolling – on the contrary, I would be quite pleased with myself. But for the record, it wasn’t me – I heard about the controversy as it was reaching something of a climax, as is proven by the fact that he was suspended not long after my comments were made.

By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:16:24 +0000

I’d like to take on a couple of points here. As you say, he doesn’t name Orange, but “it doesn’t take much Googling” (lawyers! we’ve got another one) to find out who he works for. The number of people who read Conservative Home who care at all must be vanishingly small. John Band didn’t name his employer either, but he was traceable. And your point is? I suppose you could argue that JB’s right of free speech has not been affected by letter-writing loons; he only had to take down every post, and now he blogs the fun stuff anonymously.

“By doing so, he managed to not just muddy Orange�s reputation…” How? I mean dear god how? Middle Manager suffers from political incorrectness. Who the hell cares? He’s right about consultation. No one wants mobile masts near them. They still go up. Ergo, consultation and “listening” is a sham.

AFAIK, you’re also wrong about the complaints. Orange have (rightly) treated them as complaints by individuals, and not named any group. The complainants may be Muslims, but the campaign seems to start here, comments by ‘Athena Murphy’ and ‘MEredith Magor’. These people may be Muslims, but their names suggest not, and neither claims that she is. (I leave comments on Labour Home as ‘Lev Davidovitch Bronstein’ and I’m neither Russian nor Jewish, so go figure.)

By: Ian Delaney

Ian Delaney — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:55:10 +0000

Bang on.

By: Anonmouse

Anonmouse — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:58:22 +0000

Actually Leon it didnt break on pickled it broke on a US blog called PRDifferently. I know because I emailed him the story first.

By: Rob Skinner

Rob Skinner — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:25:32 +0000

Wilson has been an idiot. His ambition to make his name in Conservative circles is entirely legitimate. But its expression seems at odds with his day job. It’s frightening that he doesn’t seemed to have realised that playing to a Tory gallery might cause some upset amongst the communities Orange wishes to engage with.

By: leon

leon — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:56:23 +0000

You forgot to add Pickled Politics into your post, considering it was there that the story first broke (in the blogosphere atleast)...