Received an interesting email this morning. From a union funded editor of a major political website. It’s an incredible insight into the standards of current political discourse in this country.
You’re an idiot.
Laurence Durnan
Editor, Political Scrapbook
Voted #2 left wing blog 2011-12 for Total Politics magazine
Yes laydeezn’gennlemn, the eight year olds have taken over.
24 responses so far ↓
1 Alan Douglas // Mar 9, 2012 at 9:12 am
Oh to be known by enemies such as him !
Alan Douglas
2 Botzarelli // Mar 9, 2012 at 9:14 am
I’m disappointed it didn’t read “your an idiot”.
3 pjt // Mar 9, 2012 at 9:23 am
On the other hand, Tim, I’d be more pleased to read your writings if you didn’t use rather similar language yourself.
If you’d just sit sit back and read each one of your posts before hitting “send”, and if you find the word “twat”, you’d rephrase it with something more cunning and evil. It would be so much more enjoyable.
I mean, I think you are usually right, but saying it with slightly less confrontation and slightly more sarcasm and humor would work better.
4 Ian Bennett // Mar 9, 2012 at 9:50 am
What, and lose his title of “undisputed King of the Internet Pedants and Lord of the Unnecessary Snark”?
5 Worzel // Mar 9, 2012 at 9:59 am
He may be an idiot, but he’s our idiot.
But the best thing about the idiot is that I can call him an twat without the cunt moderating me.
6 Rob // Mar 9, 2012 at 10:52 am
I think what he meant was “you aren’t a chippy union thug”
7 ukliberty // Mar 9, 2012 at 11:00 am
A ringing endorsement if ever I saw one.
8 The Rabid Left. // Mar 9, 2012 at 11:09 am
[...] surprisingly, Tim Worstall e-mailed the editor. People reproduce themselves – it is hardly surprising that the level of [...]
9 JuliaM // Mar 9, 2012 at 11:18 am
Which union is it? Not UNISON?
After all they have form in the ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ game…
10 squawkbox // Mar 9, 2012 at 11:39 am
The message is clear and the grammar and spelling are correct. This puts it ahead of a large proportion of the lefty blogosphere. Remember, baby steps.
11 Squirrel Nutkin // Mar 9, 2012 at 11:45 am
Are you not being a little harsh? It’s not as if he were wittily pretending to recommend his political enemies be hung from lamposts, is it.
P.S. Was that the whole of his email? If so, then infantile or inebriated, for sure.
12 dearieme // Mar 9, 2012 at 11:57 am
He didn’t say that his Dad is bigger than your Dad.
13 Matthew S. Dent // Mar 9, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Interesting that you didn’t post your sweary, ranty email to him, which precipitated that fair and accurate retort…
14 Laurence Durnan // Mar 9, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Very good. I notice that you didn’t publish your email to me, to which my three-word email was a response.
Could this be because refusing to apologise for gloating over an assault *does* make you look an idiot?
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FROM: Tim Worstall
As and when Cormac apologises for the complete bastardy of any economic analysis he made in that post I complained about then I’ll at least consider apologising for calling him thicker than pig shite.
If he, you, the site, aren’t prepared to apologise for that assault on the nations demand for entire idiocy then we’ve not much to discuss, do we?
Because, let’s face it. What he actually said, in pursuit of political ends, was either entirely ignorant gobshite of complete lying, wasn’t
it?
Your call now
15 Matthew L // Mar 9, 2012 at 12:13 pm
That didn’t sound sweary and ranty. It sounded quite restrained, actually, as well as reasonably succinct.
16 Simon Williams // Mar 9, 2012 at 1:52 pm
So, Laurence, you didn’t actually answer any of the points that Tim made in his email, made a three word ad hominem attack and left it at that. Who’s the idiot now?
17 HDoodson // Mar 9, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Insult someone without refuting any of the points made and then claim victory.
It is often said debating the left is like playing a pigeon at chess, they knock over the pieces, shit on the board and then strut around like they won.
Laurence, you are not helping the analogy.
18 Longrider » Some Wonderful Faux Outrage // Mar 9, 2012 at 2:46 pm
[...] the editor of this execrable little rag. Now, Tim didn’t share his email, but the respondent did. Again, read it for yourself and make up your own mind. Whatever conclusion you may come to [...]
19 Matthew L // Mar 9, 2012 at 3:30 pm
HDoodson: That was originally said about creationists, and with far more justification.
20 Gareth // Mar 9, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Laurence Durnan,
Do you know the idiom ‘knock some sense into someone’?
I see no gloating over the attack. The ‘rant’ is about Hollingsworth’s economic stupidity in comparison to Hollingsworth’s claimed areas of expertise and the very report he was using to support his argument not that Hollingsworth was attacked.
I did not take the comment at the end about the BNP fisticuffs to in any way suggest that it was good that the attack happened. What makes you think it does read that way?
21 PaulB // Mar 9, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Tim: this is why you should have withdrawn your remarks about the assault. Having stood by them, you’ve given up the chance of a debate on the substantive economic issue.
22 Matthew L // Mar 9, 2012 at 5:36 pm
PaulB: I admire your boundless optimism, I really do.
23 Andy // Mar 9, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Oh Lawrence makes himself look a fool. Priceless.
24 Johnson // Mar 10, 2012 at 11:12 am
I witnessed the usual losers on Twatter celebrate and joke when Eric Joyce assaulted two Members of Parliament. And now this insignificant speck of a website wants to dictate a civility code based on a fruity metaphor?
Larry Durnan and his crap blog can piss off down a deep, dark hole.
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