Respect to him for making a success of something. But cretinous, pious, bumptious leprechauns are more than capable of making something work if they put their minds to it. Have you heard of a place called “The Houses of Parliament” perchance?

And as for word count, these mere scatterings are bread crumbs on the park bench compared to the amount I write for my blog and elsewhere daily.

I’ll go now, as I await Anna’s prose of wisdom and glory for make benefit glorious libertarian nation of pigeons.

Bye.

Is that really John Shades Demetriou or is you Gloria, taking the mick? Come on now, own up.

“If you wish to knock Guido, feel free to do so all night long, – on your blog.”

‘Anna’, you don’t put a comma before a dash. The dash is adequate enough a punctuation mark for the purposes of introducing your firmly stated aside. You don’t use both the comma and the dash.

Little tip for you, for the next time you bumptiously denigrate someone who posts on your site.

Adios!

Also not sure why you’re moaning about paying tax in France. You went there, it’s a foreign country, you’ve got to play by their rules.

Nothing quite like a whinging ex pat who piles into their homeland from far distant shores, as though they brandish the right to a legacy in the old land as well as the new. Get a grip, woman for heaven’s sake.

Oh, and you’ve singularly failed to address my main question with any form of integrity. You make out as though the nature of our interchange was down to the fact you were shutting your computer down for the night. When in actual fact the real reason you spat the dummy out, as you jolly well know, is that I had ruffled your feathers by knocking your Hero-in-Chief.

It’s OK though. I’ve taken your advice, past and present, and everything we want to say about that cretinous, pious, bumptious leprechaun ‘Fawkes’ is said and done. Not too much word count mind, we tend to stick to talking about things that matter.

You ought to take a leaf out of our book some time, might help your amazingly, unpredictably successful blog.

Anyway, I’ll leave you to harp on about Westminster politics whilst nibbling away at the last of your pain aux chocolat as the French sunshine splinters through your rattan blinds. Enjoy.

Seems like someones got a bone they cant let go of.

Nothing like good old fashioned dogmatism Anna. Lovely stuff. Following blindly and loyally is everything that has created the state that the Libertarian movement wishes to remove.

I am married, happily so. Thanks to the unexpected resounding success of this blog, I no longer wash, wipe, or feed my husband, he does all that for himself. (He’s a clever boy). However, every night, well most nights, political scandals allowing, at precisely 10.30pm, he prises my old, arthritic fingers from the keyboard, and insists that I follow him upstairs – and go to bed. I put comment moderation on as I do so. There are some oddly obsessive and vitriolic people with nothing better to do in the early hours of the morning.

As For ‘[my] Libertarian free speech? An odd turn of phrase’ it was in response to ‘Sorry, have I crossed a line here? Am I in need of eradicating from the great plains of Libertarian discourse and political activism?’. Your own blog is open for as long as you wish it to be. Mine was closing for the night. If you wish to knock Guido, feel free to do so all night long, – on your blog.

You will see that I have no objection to your making a complete prat of your self in public, your comments do appear – when I am here.

Now do excuse me – visit to the French tax man this morning to pay my share of the French National Debt ahead of the rush – so comment moderation will be on until I return!

Firstly, out of interest, why have you changed your blog settings so that comments from me are now ‘under moderation’ before appearing? Are you afraid I might come here and post comments? Ones you don’t like maybe?

Secondly, and I ask this as you have the ‘Libertarian Party member’ widget on your site indicating you are a member and therefore hold Libertarian beliefs…why did you say: “You can have your Libertarian free speech…”?

[my] Libertarian free speech? An odd turn of phrase, if I may be so bold to say, from a Libertarian. Call me paranoid, but this seems a little contemptous of such a liberty does it not? You seem almost afronted by the concept!

I’d be grateful for any explanation that occurs to you, thanks.

I can guarantee you I didn’t come here to stir up a jealous shit storm about anything or anyone. I do, in fact, check your site every few days or so and I haven’t added you as a reciprocal link because I haven’t updated my blogroll for yonks. It was the fact that a conscious decision was made to take my link off yorus that had me wondering.

I mentioned Guido in an off hand comment because of something that contributor ‘Blinky’ said above. And to underline, again, I applaud his success, but I am reticent about certain aspects to his site and the current hero worship going on. Just my view, that’s all.

Obviously you feel I’m out of line by knocking him here, and I respect that. So please accept my apologies and I shan’t be bothering you again.

All the best, and I wish you success with your site.

John

Surely if you wish to criticise Guido, the place to do it is on Guido’s blog, or by e-mail to him?

I supported you as a fellow Libertarian, gave you a link on my blogroll, commented on your blog.

Since when I have heard precisely zilch from you. Not a comment, nor a reciprocal link.

You came here this evening whining that I had taken you off my blogroll. Actually I hadn’t. I had made the link private, so that you still had the value of the link, but without the advertising that you had had from being alphabetically top of my blog roll.

Suddenly you are all over my blog like a rash. A nasty rash. I assume that has something to do with Guido’s recent success. Jealousy by any chance?

Whatever. I see no reason to give you any more air time to rubbish someone who has supported me, and who I support totally. Guido is no more beyond reproach than you or I. However, you are boring the pants off me with your green eyed criticism.

You can have your Libertarian free speech. On your own blog. Off you pop!

Fair play to Guido for his success and all that, but I think I reserve the right, as does anyone else, to lay criticism at his door – seeing as he has taken to the public centre stage so prominently of late.

The idea that someone can be beyond reproach or criticism, because they have been elevated into a form of blogosphere bound sainthood is to put it mildly – worrying.

Why can’t I criticise? As far as I’m concerned, you or anyone else for that matter could slag me off till the cows come home, I really don’t give a f***.

And I’m sure lil’ old Guido can cope with my knock about his site being boring. He won’t be crying, what with the fact that millions of people read him and he’s become a commercial success out of his efforts. I applaud success, I just raise eyebrows at things like unseemly piety, the faint whiff of double standards and unfathomable hero worship.

Sorry, have I crossed a line here? Am I in need of eradicating from the great plains of Libertarian discourse and political activism?

Is that the sweet scent of irony I detect in the air?