Dear Tom,
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I am advised that Derek Draper, the owner and operator of LabourList has recently embarked on a campaign to ensure that Guido Fawkes removes racist and homophobic “hate speech” from his website
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I should note that while Guido was not personally responsible for posting these comments he did immediately remove them, however Derek Draper is still calling for both Labour and Conservative-leaning blogs to cease linking to Guido’s site.
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I note that in a recent article celebrating this victory over racism Derek Draper makes reference to his political enemies as “window lickers”, a well known and derogatory term referring to the mentally disabled.
Come on, lets have some sound political justification for the current labour growth area. Never mind the economy, how about a story behind the increasing number of databases being built which intrude on peoples privacy. DNA, passports, cctv, email, phone calls. All of this under the rather weak ‘prevention of terrorism’ line.
I’d rather know why its worth voting for a party, than why its not worth voting for another.
I thought the ‘look how smug they are, they’re already acting as if they’ve won’ line was pretty much shown to be worthless by the John McCain campaign, no?
Even if it’s not, it is undoubtedly a desperate tactic, and as ‘intellectual exercises’ go, I wouldn’t particularly categorise it as ‘interesting’.
As a liberal sort of individual myself, I would love to feel some empathy towards the government. I would also like to witness some front bench contrition; from an informal, totally unscientific survey of my politically aware friends we would all be more willing to listen to Labour if this happened (across natural party inclinations).
The ‘it started in America’ argument (such as it is) just plumbs new depths of absurdity with every repetition.
Tom, just to go off-topic slightly, well done on the St George’s Day post. I’m not quite sure why what you said was met with the response it was. Evidently you feel more comfortable with constituent feedback (of which I am one of yours and theirs) than said counsellors. I was going to post there too, but it seems a little internecine for my taste
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Tom,
Are you going to break our Party manifesto pledge and support unelected Mandelson in his sell-off of the Royal Mail?
John Edwards
Dear Tom,
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I am advised that Derek Draper, the owner and operator of LabourList has recently embarked on a campaign to ensure that Guido Fawkes removes racist and homophobic “hate speech” from his website
-
I should note that while Guido was not personally responsible for posting these comments he did immediately remove them, however Derek Draper is still calling for both Labour and Conservative-leaning blogs to cease linking to Guido’s site.
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I note that in a recent article celebrating this victory over racism Derek Draper makes reference to his political enemies as “window lickers”, a well known and derogatory term referring to the mentally disabled.
(http://www.labourlist.org/guido_fawkes_racist_comments_have_to_stop_-_and_iain_dale_must_s)
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I call upon you to remove his blog from your blogroll until he removes this vicious hate speech from his website and issues a public apology.
Come on, lets have some sound political justification for the current labour growth area. Never mind the economy, how about a story behind the increasing number of databases being built which intrude on peoples privacy. DNA, passports, cctv, email, phone calls. All of this under the rather weak ‘prevention of terrorism’ line.
I’d rather know why its worth voting for a party, than why its not worth voting for another.
I thought the ‘look how smug they are, they’re already acting as if they’ve won’ line was pretty much shown to be worthless by the John McCain campaign, no?
Even if it’s not, it is undoubtedly a desperate tactic, and as ‘intellectual exercises’ go, I wouldn’t particularly categorise it as ‘interesting’.
As a liberal sort of individual myself, I would love to feel some empathy towards the government. I would also like to witness some front bench contrition; from an informal, totally unscientific survey of my politically aware friends we would all be more willing to listen to Labour if this happened (across natural party inclinations).
The ‘it started in America’ argument (such as it is) just plumbs new depths of absurdity with every repetition.
Tom, just to go off-topic slightly, well done on the St George’s Day post. I’m not quite sure why what you said was met with the response it was. Evidently you feel more comfortable with constituent feedback (of which I am one of yours and theirs) than said counsellors. I was going to post there too, but it seems a little internecine for my taste
I see that Derek Draper has just published an humiliating apology and a retraction.
http://www.labourlist.org/apology_from_our_editor
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