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 Post Box: Gone for good?

1. The blog is no longer protected for selected readers only. It's just been deleted.

2. The Twitter page for the blog has also gone.

Good riddance.

Everyone has a right to free speech, but wishing crucifixion on people for voicing opinions and issuing threats to people who support them crosses the line.

Welsh Post Box will not be missed.

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.

Crucifixion is too good for Luke Ellis?

Welsh Post Box proves that he's far and away the most unhinged of the 'Watchers'.

Here's his latest outburst.

The ridiculous blog Freedomspeechwales who claim to not be a staffer is having a
go at this site claiming we are out to get Luke Ellis.

Umm, it's Free Speech Wales and you've posted two blog posts so far both attacking Luke Ellis.

Let us be clear. Luke Ellis put himself out there, on the Internet and decided
to blog about giving drugs to everyone, all on his own, with no help from us.

He did express himself on a blog that much is true. People are free to critique his posts. However, they should critique what he actually wrote. Luke Ellis didn't suggest giving drugs to everyone. That's a ridiculous thing to say.

He chose to abuse the position of trust his (now disgusted) local voters placed
in him by proffering the sick suggestion that a drugs lord should be placed in
charge of teaching our precious children here in Wales about taking drugs.

That simply isn't true is it? Only in your little world is that true. The only people who are 'disgusted' by this are rent-a-quote David Davies and whoever is orchestrating the campaign from within the party to discredit Luke.

In party circles the view is that CRUCIFIXION IS TOO GOOD FOR LUKE ELLIS.

Party circles? That would be you then. As for WPB to accuse Luke Ellis of 'sick suggestions', I'll leave WPB's last comment to speak for itself.

Whatever Nat is behind FSW should do some more research on Ellis before praising
him to the hilt. We await the press officers apology to the parents of children
across Wales...............

Won't somebody think of the children?

PS I'm still waiting for the avalanche of supportive comments to arrive at WPB.

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 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.

Welcome! Croeso!

This blog has been set up to counter two blogs that have sprung up in the last couple of weeks. They see themselves as 'Watch' blogs. They are in fact nothing more than partisan attack blogs designed to limit free speech and shut down debate. They see themselves as 'Watchmen' but who watches the 'Watchmen'?

The answer? We do.

So far the blogs in question have been relatively quiet with few posts and comments so we'll sit here and wait to see the kind of impact they'll make. If they can be bothered to post again that is.

So c'mon Welsh Blog Watch! C'mon Welsh Post Box! Come one come all, if you think you're good enough.

PS If the two blogs should disappear, I'm thinking of keeping the blog active as a general free speech blog.