Iain Dale goes into bovine scatology overdrive
Dear old Iain Dale. He never abandons his “old one-two” does he? You know – the one where he invents something that somebody has said, and then attacks it with all the venom he can muster.
Take this classic. You will notice that not a single one of the quotes, in inverted commas or not, are actually real quotes from LibDem Voice, Chris Huhne or Nick Clegg. (A typical LibDem Voice expenses article ends “I wouldn’t reckon on printing “we’re not as bad as the other two” too large on your Focus leaflets.”)
I think the post tells us more about Iain than anything else.
And try as I might, I can’t find any mention in the article of the fact that nearly a year later, Labour and Conservative MPs who accepted the offer from the Dolphin Square landlord have neither referred themselves nor been referred by their parties – whereas the LibDem MPs did refer their cases to the Commons authorities months ago.
Stephen Glenn has turned Iain Dale’s post back on him.
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Clearly you are not a reader of Private Eye. The whole thing was based on their pisstake apologies. If ever proof were needed that LibDems can have sense of humour failures.
You’ve really got to laugh.
“Clearly you are not a reader of Private Eye.”
Only since about 1973, Iain darling. I started reading it at about the time of the Goldenballs fund and while “Mrs Wilson’s Diary” was going. (The latter of which was, interestingly, based on “Mrs Dale’s Diary”.)
“The whole thing was based on their pisstake apologies.”
Really? Never!
“You will notice that not a single one of the quotes, in inverted commas or not, are actually real quotes from LibDem Voice, Chris Huhne or Nick Clegg.”
Nor did anyone reading them think that they actually were. I see that you deliberately avoided mentioning “powdered arse” or “smell of Mr Sheen”, because they’d have made it clear that this was mockery, not a quote.
How ironic that, in complaining about misquotation, you have cherry-picked quotations?
Bless you. I linked to the piece so anyone could see that. Humour has to have a basis of truth to be funny. LibDem Voice have scrupulously avoided any suggestion of claims of LibDem non-culpability in the expenses scandal. They have been at pains to point out that we cannot claim that.
Poor Iain. He’s failed to notice yet again that his joke is only funny to those who share his bias/prejudices*.
Example:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To avoid the treacherous Liberal Democrat!
Example:
Knock-knock!
Who’s there?
Treacherous Liberal Democrat.
‘Treacherous Liberal Democrat’ who?
Treacherous Liberal Democrat who lies and cheats and steals far worse than any Tory ever would, so there. Talk about the REAL ‘nasty party’. Hahahahahahaha!
(*That Iain thinks he is sufficiently if not totally immune to such things is the funniest joke of all.)
“If ever proof were needed that LibDems can have sense of humour failures.”
The difference between Private Eye and Iain Dale is that one is often funny, and the other is Iain Dale.