01 May 2009

Labour Chanter

Posted by Scottish Unionist at 8:58 PM. There are 15 comments.
As reported in the Guardian and elsewhere, the person behind the seemingly now defunct “Labour Chanter” blog, which allegedly smeared Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray with untrue allegations, was calling himself “Scottish Unionist” — presumably another smear attempt. This is my only blog.

15 comments
  1. Mr. Mxyzptlk May 1, 2009 10:39 PM  

    I did have a look at the (fake)scottish Unionists blog and to be honest whom ever was responsible was and is a very very sick individual.

    To nosy for my own good sometimes

  2. Wardog May 2, 2009 9:30 AM  

    Yes, posting a spoof smear is totally abhorrent & rephrensible.

    Why then Niko, did you post one saying that 'Alec Salmond had died'?




    Just how many pseudonyms are you using?

  3. Scottish Unionist May 2, 2009 11:44 AM  

    Spoofs are one thing; misrepresentation quite another.

    For example, the spoof Alex_Salmond Twitter page makes plain that it's "completely unofficial and poorly speculative" and links to an anti-SNP blog, so for the SNP to brand it "fake", as if it were purporting to be the real Alex Salmond tweeting that he "can't really be arsed with an independence referendum" and "is considering dumping Sandi Thom for Susan Boyle" (for example) is frankly ludicrous.

  4. Wardog May 2, 2009 12:14 PM  

    AM2, oh so it's ok in the small print is it.

    Your walking a very thin line there AM2.

    No-one has branded the 'twitter site a 'fake', Ian Dale queried whether it was part of a 'smear' campaign along with the 'leaky chanter' website, both deal in fabricated stories or 'tittle tattle.'

    Why are you attempting to defend either of them, has your hatred of the Salmond really become that visceral?



    Raise yer game'

  5. Wardog May 2, 2009 12:16 PM  

    Hold on a minute, are you suggesting that the Labour Chanter website isn't a spoof of Leaky Chanter?

    Your all over the place on this AM2.


    They should all be condemned, your dancing on a pin head will simply encourage this type of rubbish.

  6. Scottish Unionist May 2, 2009 12:35 PM  

    Understanding the nature of the spoof Twitter page isn't merely in the “small print”. It's glaringly obvious, both from the way the page bills itself and the content.

    Yet Angus MacNeil claimed that “Labour-linked blogs in Scotland” are “running fake sites as the First Minister”.

    What's “fabricated” on Leaky Chanter? I can't claim to have read it all, but I haven't seen much on it that I mightn't post here.

    I can't answer your question about Labour Chanter having been a spoof of Leaky Chanter. Until yesterday evening, when you kindly tipped me off to the fact that the Labour Chanter blogger had issued a statement to the Guardian using my nom de plume, I hadn't even visited it.

  7. Scottish Unionist May 2, 2009 12:47 PM  

    One other thing. I can easily ignore your “dancing on a pin head” and “raise yer game” hyperbole, but asking me: “has your hatred of the Salmond really become that visceral” needs a response. Hatred plays no part whatsoever in my politics, as should be clear from the line I have consistently taken here and elsewhere.

  8. Alec May 2, 2009 2:27 PM  

    Surely the Twitter page was a fake? Whoever is posting as "Scottish Unionist" appears to have been using forgeries.

    Real S.U., have you contacted the Guardian et al. to make this clear?

  9. Scottish Unionist May 2, 2009 3:21 PM  

    Which Twitter page do you mean? The Alex_Salmond page is linked from A Leaky Chanter, which refers to it as "my spoof on Twitter".

    Yes, I've contacted the Guardian to clarify.

  10. Alec May 2, 2009 6:45 PM  

    Aye, that one. Of course it's a fake. The Snuppie response, however, in addition to its puffed-up indignation of "dish it but cannae take it", is conflating "fake" with "forgery".

    Usually this common error is entirely forgiveable... not so when accompanied by such near psychotic levels of self-righteousness.

  11. Scottish Unionist May 2, 2009 7:00 PM  

    By definition, the word "fake" connotes a deception. Perhaps that's why Wardog was moved to deny that anyone had dubbed it such.

  12. Alec May 2, 2009 8:28 PM  

    Hmm, fair enough, S.U. Okay, it's a reprint!

  13. Mr. Mxyzptlk May 2, 2009 9:26 PM  

    Wardog

    I only post as me i did retire as niko but was hunted down by some nats(friendly ones who can take a joke as well as give out one unlike yourself)

    and as for the 'Spoof' and it was made clear it was a 'spoof'.Although
    there was a serious message of being overweight for all individuals.

    which doesn't in my opinion compare with accusing malignly(and untruthfully) a person with having a illicit affair and then deserting their partner .

    And the most disturbing aspect I found from supporters of the snp a party which condemns discrimination of sexual orientation.
    was the feature for the derisory remarks was a moving from a heterosexual relationship to a same sex one.

    A homophobic reaction as most would see it in fact that was the kernel of the Blog that the individual was a secret homosexual
    and should be held up as figure of fun and ridicule.

    because being a homosexual was a shameful thing to be.
    and a lot of Nationalists went along with that characterisation.

    and you wardog would be better thought of if you were to condemn them as roundly as the snp has done
    for running that Blog and that view of individuals

  14. Wardog May 3, 2009 10:16 AM  

    Oh dear Niko, you didn't read my post did you, you just saw my name got the jist of it and felt the 'rage'.

    I have condemned it and yours.

    The are BOTH reprehensible.

    You should be ashamed of yourself.


    Here you are 'defending' gay rights whilst attacking 'fat' people.

    Which planet are you on, don't you realise that these types of slurs do nothing but put people off politics.

    AM2's pussyfooting around the definitions of 'fake' v 'spoof' are ludicrous and deep down he knows it but can't bring himself to sat it.

    They are all personal slurs.

    Now get out of here before I tear you a new metaphorical backside.

  15. Scottish Unionist May 3, 2009 8:43 PM  

    Sorry to break it to you, Wardog, but Spitting Image actually used puppets. Nobody (except perhaps you) thought they were the real people.

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