Whaleoil Awards – Worst Political Blog

Clear cut nominations for this category.

Red Alert: The blog of Labour MPs, tightly moderated, dissenting views are rigorously edited or deleted. All the moderators tell out right lies when altering, moderating or deleting comments.

No Right Turn: The shouty blog of Malcolm Harbrow, professional student and pretend liberal. He turned off comments years ago because like all shouty socialists and control freaks he cannot tolerate dissent. Seriously prone to Key Derangement Syndrome.

The Standard: Janet Wilson labeled them as “hard left rhetoric rendered [them] blind to any rational coverage.” Tightly moderated, rabid to the extreme and blinkered. Mostly anonymous but Lynn Pretice thinks he is the worlds best programmer and quaintly still refers to himself as a “sysop”. Perhaps the most seriously afflicted with Key Derangement Syndrome. Ironically they describe almost any blog other than their own as “the sewer”.

Tumeke: Used to be a decent blog when mostly written by Tim Selwyn. During his stint at Her Majesty pleasure it was taken over by blow-hard Martyn Bradbury. Is way more shouty than no Right Turn and prone to serious bouts of Key Derangement Syndrome. Phoebe Fletcher is the sole voice of reason at the blog but her posts are almost always tl;dr.

Worst Political Blog

  • The Standard (46%, 203 Votes)
  • Tumeke (24%, 105 Votes)
  • Red Alert (21%, 92 Votes)
  • No Right Turn (9%, 37 Votes)

Total Voters: 437

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  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ Inventory2

    Any chance you could include an option that lets us vote for all four? It’s too hard to choose which one is the worst of a bad bunch when they all suck!

  • Roger

    1 = Red Alert, The Standard, Tumeke, No Right Turn 

  • Gazzaw

    Red Alert if for no other reason than that they actually lend credence to posts by “the ghost who walks”.

  • Super Guest

    I can’t wait for the sanctimonious glee that the Standard will evoke once they’ve learned they won. It’ll be something like: “we must be getting to the tory scum/bosses/National party/sane/hardworking” combine with some “red flag marches on” 1932 bullshit and a hat tip to watermellon environmentalists.

  • The Saint

    what about the dreadful “bomber” bradburys blog?