Voting TaKtiX

Oh dear. The British Blogosphere’s favourite kicking ball is being even more obtuse than normal. For readers not aware, Neil Harding is a Labour supporting blogger in Brighton who has a tendency to disagree with, well, everyone, and thinks, as far as I can tell, that Tired Tony can do no wrong. His current crusade is on behalf of the (dis)Respect Agenda generally and summary confiscation as a specific. He has two posts on the subject, Why Tony is Right and Tony Blair and the respect agenda continued. The comments threads on both posts are impressively long, and, apart from Neil himself, no one has any support for his position. No, don’t worry, I’m not posting this to support him. You see, it’s so bad I thought I’d give him some more publicity.

I sometimes find in debates that the person that does the most damage to your position isn’t the person opposed to it, but the misguided supporter who, well, doesn’t quite get it and links everything together as one big overarching theme and assumes everyone opposed is inherently arguing from the same position with the same reasons. (more…)

For the record, Paul and I don’t agree about everything. He doesn’t like Firefly or Serenity. I, um, do. A lot. But given it’s completely OT, I’ll merely link to the excellent InkyCircus and join their suggestion that everyone should go buy the DVD. Hope that’s ok with everyone.