Apologies for the late comment on yesterday's Daily Politics show with this delectable washed up hack Mr Andrew Neil (61). Pictured here with yet another young lovely not the one that had previously been photographed with wearing a baseball hat that Private Eye repeatedly reprinted.
Anyway, the disgust that this hack produced yesterday has led to a glut of membership applications and donations to our tiny and irrelevant party in the last twenty four hours.
Neill and the BBC do not understand the meaning of 'Public Service Broadcasting' for which the BBC has a charter and the ability to enforce a TV tax to pay for itself. Neill felt that it was not his task to question Mounsey on his party's policies, but to play the man himself, attacking his blog. The wee balding scotsman is not fond of anybody who has any association with public schools, so Mounsey was never going to be off to a good start.
This morning Chris has deleted his blog, and has made a personal decision to tone down the visceral anger that has been his trademark.
Unlike the rest of the BBC, professional politicians and Neil himself sucking off the teat of the public purse, the members of the Libertarian Party are committed amateurs. We cannot afford to have our real jobs and lives threatened by those who feel threatened by having been caught fleecing the public purse in 'Rotten Parliament' and in the BBC.
Neill appears in another show were he sits around chuckling with the hypocrite Diane Abbott and the ever bizarre Portillo. If these three are what the BBC thinks represents politics no wonder forty per cent of the population don't vote, and the rest are utterly disillusioned with what is on offer, including the sterile 'Leaders' debate tonight.
Dinosaurs ruled the earth once, they do not do so now as they were unable to adapt to a new reality.
Update
In response to begging emils received, here you go
8 comments:
I rarely find myself in total disagreement with posts here...
However, I think much of the problem is that dinosaurs DO still rule the Earth - and the young pretenders aren't often much if at all better!
I also quite like Andrew Neill's programme - it does at least take the piss out of politicians (which they richly deserve) and I find it can be quite entertaining in that respect.
As to photo ops with various attractive young chicas - surely you're only jealous (as am I)?
Don't worry guys - there are loads of us out here who would rather vote for someone who has sworn a bit but not fucked up the country than someone who doesn't say "twat" much but is a corrupt arsehole.
Hear Hear Bill!
GOOooooooooo Liberty!
A decent, civilised, professional response from deputy dawg there. Or not.
Neil was aggressive, but no more so than to any other politician. We have been more than kind, supportive inf act, on this issue at B&D, but the victim complex is wearing thin.
Grow up, learn from it and move on. The party received exposure, Chris buckled, maybe understandably, but the exposure was there all the same. But let's stop the whole 'evil Neill' crap shall we? He did what any decent hack would do - he scented blood and he went for it.
So the membership has gone from 450 to 476. Great. If it was more impressive you would have said 'We have received 500 applications today'.
It would be great to say we received 500, but we did not, probably because not that many people watch Daily Politics.
I don't think he is evil, just a tad sad trying to prove his flagging virility.
But as you say the welcome exposure was there for the party if not the policies.
In truth, from the moment Chris was elected party leader, this was an accident waiting to happen. Like many, I enjoy reading Devils Kitchen and the blog has made a huge contribution to the libertarian cause but the content was always going to come back to bite us the moment we got any mainstream exposure.
Chris was set up twice in a week by the BBC and whilst we have all complained about the lack of interest from the MSM the phrase "be careful what you wish for" comes to mind. That said, it could be argued that the publicity will be of overall benefit to LPUK in the medium term.
The anonymity most of us enjoy on the blogosphere, the opportunity for free speech without consequences, creates a magical parallel universe and libertarians are strong in this world.
We almost rule it.
But although the intellectual debate has connections with the real world and we need to keep pushing to promote those connections, when we are confronted by political reality, we are likely to be faced down. Neil could have opened up with "I understand your party policy is to abolish the NHS" and the interview could have gone as badly.
All credit to Chris for his bravery in being there, but we need a more subtle strategy than the one we are currently following.
I don't believe the swearing and emotional violence helps. It is too reactive and easy to push holes in.
But the publicity gained was good and I'm sure viewers could see that here was a person with a good heart.
I think the public is tired of self-seeking, self-aggrandising politicians and the evident honesty went a long way. In fact, congratulations and may you continue from strength to strength. People are hungry for the truth.
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