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47-year-old man bullied by nasty Nats

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Our dear chum “Comical Tom” Harris is at it again, this time crying to Holyrood magazine about the evil SNP and their cyberbullying, as well as continuing to punt the hopelessly-discredited lie that online unpleasantness is the sole preserve of SNP supporters (particularly ironic given Tom’s status as the Unionist camp’s troll-in-chief). Given that Harris is fond of proudly announcing that he’s blocked readers from his Twitter feed if they post messages he disagrees with, it’s hard to see who’s managing to upset the poor lamb so much. (Particularly as he notes that these awful bullies “tend to cover up” the vitriol he alleges they bear.)

More serious is Harris’ ludicrous allegation that there will be “nothing remotely democratic” about the conduct of the independence referendum – a shameful, borderline-libellous attack echoing Labour’s previous slurs which compared the First Minister to Mussolini and Hitler – something Harris apparently manages to say with a straight face in the same interview where he asserts that:

“People say there’s just as much antagonism on the Labour side and Labour people are just as nasty – that’s a lie, that’s wrong, and it’s demonstrably wrong.”

(We await keenly Tom’s attempt to defy all known laws of reality and prove a negative. In the meantime, we’ve politely asked him via Twitter to provide some specific examples of this “bullying” so that the vicious perpetrators can be shamed.)

Of course, we’re falling into Harris’ trap by even reporting this garbage. Currently trailing in fifth place in the Labour leadership race despite there being only three candidates, Tom is lashing out bitterly at all and sundry – including Scottish Labour’s own MSPs for their understandable decision not to subject themselves to any of his demented haverings in person – in a desperate attempt to turn his indisputable car-crash appeal into some sort of political power. Readers can decide for themselves, however, if this is the sort of behaviour that characterises a prospective future First Minister of Scotland.

4 to “47-year-old man bullied by nasty Nats”

  1. John Skinner says:

    Well
     
     I commented on the Holyrood article, linking to evidence of one of Mr Harris's sidekicks being scurrilous 
     
    Funny enough it didn't get published

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  2. DougtheDug says:

    Tom Harris. A saint holding firm against all these nasty cybernats.
    The only fly in the ointment for this story is the UK Web Archive which has archived his previous blog.
    That's the blog where he commented that the SNP conference was an, "annual hate-fest".
    What a nasty cyberbrit.
    link to webarchive.org.uk
     

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  3. Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

    " I commented on the Holyrood article, linking to evidence of one of Mr Harris's sidekicks being scurrilous. Funny enough it didn't get published"

    Mine either. What a mystery. Those Unionists sure do like to stick together.

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  4. Rev. Stuart Campbell says:

    "The only fly in the ointment for this story is the UK Web Archive which has archived his previous blog."

    Ooh, nice one. I'd been looking for the source of that quote this afternoon. Wonder if there are any other gems…

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