Monday, April 13, 2009
The Red Rags of Cardiff & Edinburgh
Iain Dale 7:15 PM
Anuerin Glyndwr is an official Labour blog, created and operated by David Taylor, a researcher for Leighton Andrews AM. I don't know the provenance of A Leaky Chanter. Perhaps one of my Scottish readers could help out.
UPDATE: A reader, Pavlov, has left this comment on another thread.We in Wales also had a Labour smear blog, called Natwatch, which smeared and lied about Plaid Cymru politicians, and stooped so low as to mock the Sunderland accent of a Plaid Cymru Assembly member because she happened to be English. This site was run by Assembly Labour with the connivance and approval of elected politicians. Meanwhile, emails on discussion sites were written allegedly from Plaid supporters containing racist and anti-English comments. Every one of them was traced back to Millbank, where Labour henchmen were sending them out falsely.
They also made homophobic and sexist comments about Plaid members - these too were found to come from Labour HQ.
Monday, 13 April 2009
Readers in Scotland and Wales may be having a wry smile at the fact that the grubby Red Flag blog didn't quite make it to the internet in time. For in those two countries, Labour has indeed started up versions of the Red Rag. In Wales we have the Aneurin Glyndwr blog(started in March 2009) and in Scotland A Leaky Chanter (started in December 2008). They are not as salacious as the Red Rag was intended to be, but they clearly exist as attack blogs, purely designed to attack the motives of the other parties, although the concentrate primarily on the nationalist parties.
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