Late stuff

Picking up on stuff that my good friends Carpsio & Il Diablo have noted recently. EU Referendum has had a bit of a pop at bloggers

''But that irritation also extends to the British political bloggers who seem quite content to follow in the wake of the MSM and prattle endlessly about exactly the same issues.''

The thing is old fruit, I'm an advocate not a journalist. The Devil is a bit of a whizz with computers and I'm sure Carpsio does something. Some bloggers make the news, I am quite happy to dole out the occasional kicking to the Downing Street Punch & Judy Show, fisk Polly Toynbee and highlight the stupidity of leftism in general. I have neither the time nor the inclination to be an investigative journalist.

Often the humour and analysis is about the level one would expect of the 4th form of a second-rate boys boarding school

I don't know. Eugenides, The Devil, Carpsio, The Pedant all like a rude joke. Who doesn't? But behind the puerile humour, sweary words and ghastly descriptions of Polly Toynbee's no doubt volumnous pudenda there is actually rather a lot of high-level analysis.

And, if the MSM does not have the maturity to lead the way, it is for the bloggers to take over and demand a serious debate on a situation which is becoming ever-more unsettling

I don't know. Can't we talk about the Milliband's incestuous relationship? It would be like an endless circle of New Labour fellatio. What a nauseating thought?

As bloggers, you can indulge in your idle tittering and puerile humour or you can act as grown ups. The choice is yours and your readers will be your judges.

I'll take the idle tittering thanks. I spend all day pretending to be a grown up. I have a mortgage to pay. I have two increasingly expensive children. I have charity stuff I do because I feel I have to do. I go to Neighbourhood Watch meetings. I do 17 hour days. The only place I get to comment, without people who know me listening, is here. If I want to cut loose that is exactly what I shall damned well do. My readers, few as they are, are here because I make smutty comment on political events and I'd like to think that they think I have a relatively nice turn of phrase.

There are bloggers that do a great job in showing the bestial relationship between the political world and the MSM. They should be applauded and cheered from the rooftops by other bloggers as there is nothing like showing the pompous arses of Westminster up for what they are. I, and many others, simply cannot so we try our best to curse with a bit of elegance.

EUReferendum is one of the best blogs around with constantly well-argued analysis. It should be read by everyone. But the beautiful thing about the blogosphere is that you can write what you please, when you please, how you please. I will continue down on my merry way of commenting snobbishly upon modern culture, criticising the muppets in government and attacking the likes of Monbiot, Fisk and Toynbee whenever I get a spare 5 minutes.

RS