Welsh Blog Watch: Back from the dead

It seems our 'friend' at WBW is back.

Take at look at this. Ok, Guido won't exactly be quaking in his boots.

What's more interesting is the source. It is now widely known that Welsh Ramblings is run by Plaid staffers in Cardiff Bay, and possibly also by Plaid workers at Party HQ.

This leaves one question: Is Plaid Cymru actively working to undermine its alliance with Labour
by seeking to destablise the Welsh Secretary?

It also begs another question, namely why is Welsh Blog Watch almost exclusively dedicated to 'watching' Welsh Ramblings?

Haven't Labour Party staffers learned their lessons from the recent 'smeargate' incidents?

Welsh Blog Watch: Intelligent post shocker!

Even though I disagree with his conclusions, is this post evidence that WBW could move away from the sloppy nonsense that infested his early blog posts? If he can keep this up the Welsh blogosphere would benefit from having a non-partisan 'watcher'.

I would warn him not to jump to conclusions so fast though. He states,

Now, I have no evidence to back up this theory at all. I have no inside knowledge.

Then goes on to blame the whole thing on the nationalists. Surely there have been idiots from other parties stirring the pot on this one as well?

Welsh Blog Watch, please, pretty please, produce more posts like this.

Activity on all fronts

First we have this from WBW

When this blog acquired its very own cyber stalker I set up a parody site. I had no intention of using it, as the first post made clear.

By now that my obsessional little friend has revealed himself to by just another Plaid blogger (almost certainly a staffer, but I'll leave the question of that one open)

I'm not a staffer by the way, I'm not even a member of Plaid Cymru.

I've decided to make use of it.

Great move, so you're now posting blog posts on a secondary blog that nobody reads.

For those who wish to see it follow this link. Essentially he makes the leap of logic that because I supported Luke Ellis's right to free speech and pointed out it was almost certainly a member of his own party that I'm a Plaid staffer. The only person that has been trying to get any sort of gain from Luke outside Labour is David Davies who did it in the press. I doubt Mr Davies reads many newly started Labour blogs. Draw your own conclusions.

The other claim he takes issue with is that Martin Shipton isn't spinning for the Labour Party in Wales. Anyone who knows Shipton, his writings, his affiliations, his politics........knows who's line he's more likely to spin.

Oh, and he picked me up on my spelling. He's got chutzpah, I'll give him that.

Next up is a second post from Welsh Post Box (a blog set up principally to attack Labour councillor Luke Ellis) and guess what? The second post is about Luke! No surprises there.

Luke Ellis who now stands disgraced in the eyes of the blogsphere, and his Party for advocating the legalisation of drugs has resigned from blogging.

Number of blogs attacking Luke Ellis and his blog posting? One. Yours. Hardly disgraced in the eyes of the blogosphere.

The world will not miss his strange views and his party will be pleased that he has shut the fuck up.

Doesn't that scream of an inside Job WBW? Or have you got any inside info?

In a final posting on his sad excuse for a blog, Ellis has a go a highly regarded Western Mail Chief Political Reporter Martin Shipton, who originally exposed Ellis for the diatribe of liberal spouting.

Highly regarded? That isn't you is it Shippo?

In the attack Ellis states "I am sure that Martin Shipton has many views which he holds which would not run side by side with his employers." .

That's almost certainly true.

What is he suggesting exactly? Maybe he would like to explain, or in the very least apologise for his remarks.

Apologise for what? Stating that a reporter may have views that differ from Trinity Mirror? I'd hazard a guess that the NUJ chapel meetings would be very boring if journalists held the same views as their employers.

He still hasn't uttered a word of regret over his outrageous suggestion about Howard Marks taking over Drugs policy in Wales, and Cardiff Bay sources reveal to Welsh Post Box that Ellis was seen "laughing and joking with his work colleague" in the Assembly dining room this week.

Why the hell should he apologise for expressing himself in a blog? Who did he hurt? Should he apologise to the stupid people who missed the tongue in cheek humour? As for the 'laughing with a work colleague' how dare he? I mean actually laughing. Burn the witch.

Clearly showing total disregard for the deep shame and harm he has caused to his party and his office with his lurid scheme.

It was never a scheme, it was a humorous 'what if'.

Welsh Post Box is pleased that he has been forced to stop blogging but thinks it is time for a public apology. Join the fight. Show your support here in the comment boxes.

In other words WPB is happy that Luke's freedom of expression has been extinguished and that someone, somewhere is set to gain from the manufactured outraged caused.

PS So far in two blog posts WPB has gathered six comments. Only one was supportive. The comment was posted by the same person who promoted the blog elsewhere, so chances are it's the blogs author. Sad.

Welsh Blog Watch: Working himself into a frenzy

An update from the wonderful world of WBW:

Update: Instantly, a response goes up. It's really funny. I honestly thought some of the crap that appears on the Welsh blogosphere was about as bad as it got. It turns out all I needed to do was post a few mildly critical comments and this guy is so upset he'll dedicate his life to cyberstalking me! Brilliant.

And instantly a response comes from WBW, he's on a roll today. Two posts and one update, he's almost consistent.

Again with cyberstalking insult by someone who set up an anonymous blog to......well you know the rest.

I'll type this out in capital letters and hopefully, even with his poor grip of the English language little WBW can understand.

THIS BLOG IS A SATIRICAL TAKE ON THE BLOG YOU'RE OPERATING.*

There you go.

PS Bonus points for praising yourself in the comments using an 'anon' sock puppet. Classy.

* edited for clarity

Welsh Blog Watch: Dumber than first thought

Here's the latest 'offering'.

Good to know my personal cyber stalker, the completely-impartial-and-not-at-all-a-Nationalist-front blog "Free Wales Speech" is quick on the uptake. What a shame he's not that quick witted.

Wow two blogposts in one day, I've really stirred the hornets nest. Regular posts? What next? Good posts? We'll have to wait and see.

P.S. 'cyber stalking'? Nice way to undermine a true criminal offence that many people have suffered. This is merely a satirical poke at your precious ego my friend, I don't care who you are, where you live or what you do for a living.

He does seem very upset that I've criticised Welsh Drivelings. That wouldn't because you ARE Welsh Drivelings, would it? Oh no.

Well if the main target of your blog is Welsh Ramblings then the logical assumption would be that you were specifically aiming your blog at WR wouldn't it? I'm not Welsh Ramblings by the way.

Anyway, good to know your reading Ramblings.

I'm not WR, no matter how many times you write it won't change that.

And good also to know that I'm being so well read in the Assembly.

In summary,

How can you summarise anything? You've said sod all!

we are told to believe that Welsh Blog Watch is out to stifle debate by taking the piss out of others,

Yep that's about it.

while Free Wales Speech is performing some sort of democratic duty by err...taking the piss out of Welsh Blog Watch.

It's called satire. There are dictionaries available online if you need to look that up.

Work that one out if you can.

Most people would be able to, take as long as you need though.

To me it's just another fine example of just how far up their own arses most Welsh bloggers are.

You really can't deal with criticism can you?

Welsh Blog Watch speaks!

Wow, a posting from Welsh Blog Watch. Took his time.

You might have seen a new blog that has just been created. It's called Free Speech Wales.

This blog has been created to limit my free speech and close down my debate.

Quite the opposite, this blog supports all free speech and encourages debate. It's just that WBW has offered none, it's a political attack blog designed solely to attack Welsh Ramblings (with pretensions of going after other blogs). It's aim is to stifle debate, to peddle smears and under the pretence of labelling all Welsh bloggers crap and to dissuade people from blogging. WBW is the perfect example of the beauty of blogging, anyone with an internet connection can have a go. It doesn't matter that you can't spell or construct a reasonable argument, all are welcome.

So I'm setting up a new blog - the Free Speech Wales Watch blog to monitor this new sinister blog's every move and report back.

The fact that WBW can't even produce one blog consistently, creating more would be an even greater strain on him/her/them even if it's a joke.

This new blog says that it may carry on even if I shut down. I might do that, as nothing else proves so clearly what a load of shite the Welsh blogosphere is than the fact that someone has actually set up a site to watch me!

Ah, WBW this blog isn't just to watch you. It's designed to watch all politically motivated smear sites that pop up within the Welsh blogosphere.

We don't want to you shut down, we want to debate the rubbish you're producing. We want to expose the nonsense that you think is clever satire. We support your right to free speech and hope you continue.

Just because you're an illiterate, infrequent blogger doesn't make your posting any less important. You and your peers are a perfect example of the type of Machiavellian nonsense that staffers from various political parties get up to.

Thank you for making everyone else look good.