Comments on: Labourgraph Doing Downing Street’s Dirty Work Again

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:42:27 +0000

The fact that you’re still “intensely proud” of having actively supported the Nicaraguan contras in the 80s tells me all I need to know about you. I’m genuinely shocked. You disgust me.

By: John Prescott

John Prescott — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:17:59 +0000

I love the reading the Telegrass, me. Dirt, I mean, salt of the earth.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:25:58 +0000

The interesting thing is that the “rebuttal” doesn’t actually claim that anything in the article is incorrect.

By: Iain Martin Leaving Labourgraph - Guy Fawkes' blog

Iain Martin Leaving Labourgraph - Guy Fawkes' blog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:28 +0000

[...] As far as Guido is concerned they have behaved abysmally. They tipped off Downing Street with details of a politically serious story, publishing a spoiler that might as well have had Damian McBride’s byline (it didn’t mention him), they then alone of any newspaper in the world published a hatchet job of a profile. [...]

By: SHB

SHB — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:22:57 +0000

I read the Telegraph everyday, I thought ‘so fucking what to all the stuff you did and the experiences you have had, much more interested in the public service you are doing today’.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:29:09 +0000

Checks with the Land Registry have shown that his wife Orla owns at least two properties in London – a house in Clerkenwell and a flat in Wandsworth

How did the telegraph do a reverse lookup on the land registry? The land registry will let you mark a piece of land and find out who owns it: sensible enough, as it lets an interested party find out who to talk to about that land. However, it doesn’t let you put in a name and find all the land that person owns (as far as I can tell). To do that would require access to the database itself. Who then, answered these “checks” made by the Telegraph?

I would be very worried if any Tom, Dick or Harry can just walk up to the Land Registry and find out what I own.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:04:53 +0000

Don’t take it personally. My highly complimentary post hasn’t appeared either.

By: Greychatter

Greychatter — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:14:37 +0000

The Telegraph appear to have stopped allowing comments on the Guido article

By: Completely fabricated and malevolent nonsense… « Charon QC

Completely fabricated and malevolent nonsense… « Charon QC — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:52:08 +0000

[...] Guido Fawkes last week not only earned him a rather absurd piece of smear journalism in return (which he fielded rather well) but it would appear that Mr Balls is now revealed as the Ernst Stavro Blofeld Bond villain of [...]

By: James Keir Hardie

James Keir Hardie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:22:20 +0000

Well Done, I loved the Telegraph piece and if I wasn’t already an avid reader and sometimes contributor to the Guido Faukes Blog, curiosity would have got the better of me and by now I would have checked it out to see what all the fuss was about. Unknowingly they have given my favourite political blog a great shot of free publicity whilst at the same time hastening your own demise. I remember the Telegraph as a robust paper that held certain moral standards whether or not you agreed with its politics, but it now appears like nu labour to appeal to the lowest common denominator.