Why do I bother? I mean what is the bloody point?

I mean: how should I respond to the latest comment over at The Spine from a person claiming to be ‘Tory’:

How dare people slander the Conservative Party leader in such a way. Just because a new medium of contacting the electorate has become available, does that really mean that he is all bad? If so, then why are those who broadcast on radio and television mediums not also slandered?

Blair and Brown would look rather nice with little slanderous comments and poor-pictures cheaply and unprofessionally layered over an image of them.

Poor show indeed. The makers of this horrid blog should remove the article and issue an apology.

I have to take it that the Tories have been let loose on the PCs at their conference. Where else could I find somebody with such a serious sense-of-humour bypass on a Monday morning? To be honest, I didn’t think my Photoshopping skills are that bad, but I only spend a hour updating the site at the end of each day.

I think the tell-tale phrase is the bit about the ‘new medium for contacting the electorate’, which sounds like it’s right out of some Blogging Primer given out to the blue-rinse-brigade to help them move into the Age of Cameron. What is sad about this comment is that I’ve been taking the mickey out of the Labour Party and the Lib Dems for months now, and all through their conferences, without a word said in their defence. Can it really be the case that Lib Dems and Labourites have a better sense of humour than the supposedly more libertarian Tories? Two days into the Tory conference and somebody comes along and leaves a comment as seriously foolish as this. It makes you wonder. Need I explain what I do, or why I find it funny?

Yet perhaps this is an indication of why the Tory Party have found it so difficult to regain power. Many of them (and their members) remain isolated from the humours (of all kinds) within the country at large. Their best representatives in the country are William Hague and Boris Johnson, two witty fellows who endear themselves to people through their humour. Only yesterday I was talking about the ‘ordinary man’. I think that most people who I would consider ‘ordinary’ would understand what I’m doing and the points I’m trying to make.

I don’t know if I should feel upset at having offended somebody, or delighted to have pricked some of the pomposity that is too rife in this country.

Yet,still, I do sometimes wonder why I even bother…

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