The Wardman Wire

Time to bring out the Soap video again. Here’s the theme tune for this post (play it while reading):

Blogger Spat

There’s a spat going on. It is the silly season. Person or persons unknown has apparently been impersonating Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb, and a huge crowd of Lib Dems are jumping up and down shrieking about it.

Notably Norman Lamb himself has not said a word as far as I can tell. Sensible man - he’s campaigning about hospital closures and other things that his constituents care about.

I’ve no idea who the culprit was, but the person is very obviously a 22-carat tosser.  However, they appear to have successfully diverted the Lib Dems from real politics for several weeks.

If you are interested then this post probably sums it up best. If you think it is that serious, report it to the police for God’s sake. If you don’t think it is that serious, find something useful to do.

This follows hard on the heels of the “Senior Conservative uses slightly altered logo in wrong Pantone shade of blue in violation of section 6 subsection 24c paragraph XXa of a 6 month old copy of their corporate presentation guidelines” non-scandal scandal. The charge was lying to the BBC and the evidence was a 6 month old copy of Guidelines that only came in 9 months ago.

What it means is that seasoned bloggers - at a time when important things are happening such as the Press Complaints Commission starting to regulate online sites - are behaving rather like this:

First the Windows Media one:

[WINDOWSMEDIA http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20070715-soap-theme.wmv 320 257]

And now the Quicktime version for the persecuted minority (not brilliant quality - sorry):

[QUICKTIME http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20070715-soap-theme.mov 320 257 false true]

A Hint for the Persecuted / Exposed

This blog is pseudonymous, as it says on the about page.

The real safeguard for pseudonymous action is not to do anything that you are ashamed of in your real identity - as is the case on this blog.

The different online identity is consistent and it makes my life less complicated - but being decloaked would not make it impossible.

And that is all I have to say on the subject.

Wrapping-Up

I note in passing this story which hints at “How Lib Dem bloggers can get on Radio 5″. That wouldn’t be by targetting the Britblog Review on the Pods and Blogs show by any chance, would it?

If it isn’t, could someone Lib Dem give us a plug, please.

For the record, I usually try and do one story from each main party. This week the LibDems got an extra one, but that was James Graham praising the Daily Mail, so it doesn’t really count.

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