Comments on: Richard Murphy bans me from his blog

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:12:34 +0000

http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/11/socialist-hate-crime-law-planned.html

“Bullying by ‘bloggertarians’ against socialists is a growing problem, groups say

Inciting hatred against people of a leftist persuasion is to be outlawed under government plans outlined in the Queen’s Speech.”

“At the moment people don’t take it as seriously as other forms of hate crime. Research suggests that you are four times more likely to be a victim of blogosphere satire if you are a socialist.”

By: Newmania

Newmania — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:57:46 +0000

I am banned from Liberal Conspiracy but I am also banned from John B`s Blog for no better reason than being insufficiently obsequious . As you say it is indicative of a certain mind set
That’s why it annoys me to see the spotty little Nazi gallivanting around as if he was fit to breath the lords good clean air .

By: Alan Douglas

Alan Douglas — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:29:31 +0000

My post awaiting moderation over there :

Mr Totalitarian Murphy – please ban me pre-emptively, just to be sure.

“no evidence that anything I will say will change their minds” – that is very much you the kettle calling us pots a darker shade of white.

Alan Douglas

By: Alan Douglas

Alan Douglas — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:05:49 +0000

I hear there is going to be a vacancy at the very top of the CRU which Richard would be a shoe-in for ….

Informed Debate R Us – NOT !

Alan Douglas

By: john miller

john miller — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:49:45 +0000

If he applied criteria 3 and 4 to his own posts he wouldn’t have a blog at all.

By: and

and — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:00:35 +0000

I don’t get it. Blogs and similar vehicles serve many purposes; such as to amuse, inform, whatever. Dickie’s can only be categorised as a vehicle to bring lesser mortals around to his way of thinking. So to exclude anyone who takes a view which differs to Dickie’s removes the opportunity for him to exercise his brilliance in entering into debate, and proving he is right in bringing people around to his world view. That leaves the purpose of his blog, and indeed the man himself, to be what ? Nothing more than a vanity exercise by which he writes something and people that agree with him are allowed to congratulate him on being right.

By: Dennis the Peasant

Dennis the Peasant — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:51:19 +0000

WGCE.

By: Ltw

Ltw — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:08:00 +0000

So he wants mainstream – but bans “far right” commentary (as defined by him) and not far left? Obviously he’s an advocate of the theory that the centre is wherever he is standing…

What interests me is that by introducing this rule, isn’t he tacitly admitting that he didn’t feel able to block your comments on any of the other rules? So therefore he is agreeing that your comments were legal, polite, added value to the debate, factually accurate, and posted by a genuine commentator.

Game, set, and match – time to claim victory Tim.

By: Bill Sticker

Bill Sticker — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:29:33 +0000

To misquote a Mr Arthur King; let’s not go to his blog, it is a silly place.

By: jameshigham

jameshigham — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:37:21 +0000

UKIP far right? Eh?

By: Liberals: the new far right.

Liberals: the new far right. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:09:01 +0000

[...] the new far right. A big H/T to Tim Worstall for this: For a comment to be published I must be satisfied [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:55:09 +0000

Hahahah:
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2009/11/29/the-dangers-of-a-libertarian-view

By: Winston

Winston — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:48:51 +0000

I would just like to note that there have been five new threads started since he announced the policy change, not a single comment has been made.

How’s that working out for ya, Richie?

By: John Fembup

John Fembup — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:48:34 +0000

To birds perched way out on the far left, everyone else appears to be on the far right.

Oh, well.

And I’d add Murphy’s attitude is at one with the global warming cabal. What could possibly go wrong?

By: Longrider » The Shorter Richard Murphy

Longrider » The Shorter Richard Murphy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:59:52 +0000

[...] “ragging Ritchie” post over at Timmy’s links us to the idiot Murphys latest approach to [...]

By: diogenes1960

diogenes1960 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:45:12 +0000

Frankly I#’m surprised it took so long. For one who claims to relish debate, he really does not like opposing viewpoints however well-argued or supported by facts. His views, of course, are almost always totally counter-factual and could opnly exist in his fantasy universe.

By: Tom Paine

Tom Paine — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:34:08 +0000

I have given up on trying to comment on most statist blogs. All you get is vulgar abuse, however polite you may be personally. I can understand differences of opinion, but I cannot understand why some are satisfied to close a debate simply by naming the opposing view “Tory”, “Far Right,” “Liberal” or whatever. It seems to me that such people must move in very restricted and rather tribal social circles.

By: Georges

Georges — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:33:28 +0000

Murphy putting a complete lockdown on dissent for his blog can only mean one thing:

He is getting ready to post his oft, oft, oft promised (yet, oddly never delivered) defense of “the Missing Billions”.

With dissent banished, he now has an open field to express his own particular brand of psuedo-authoritarianism.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:08:34 +0000

Thanks – that’s what Farage says, but Pearson says ‘disband’. Do you think he went further than he’d agreed with Farage and told yourself and other workers? Or was he misquoted?

Tim adds: I think it’s more likely that Pearson mis spoke. Not in the original offer, but in the reporting over the last couple of days. One of the interesting things about Malcolm Pearson is that he doesn’t filter and calibrate his utterances in quite the same way that other politicians do. He’s entirely capable of saying something like “Give us the referendum and we’ll go off and have a picnic with the teddy bears while you have the election to yourselves” (note, not that I’ve ever heard him say that of course).

In Pearson-speak “stand down” and “disband” might be used interchangeably….in spoken language, of course. On paper he’s as accurate as you would expect a successful businessman to be.

It’s going to be interesting seeing some people trying to parse some of the things he’ll undoubtedly say over time.

By: Costello

Costello — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:03:36 +0000

Richard Murphy is a silly man.