Communications Debate Heats Up

Martin Salter has publicly insulted all and sundry in a sweeping dismissal of bloggers while advcertising his own indefensible own short-comings, using a press mouthpiece to launch the attack.

Reading Roars provides a neat summary of the outbreak of partisan sniping stemming from Richard Willis' punditry.

Jane Griffiths is noted for needling her former Labour colleagues on this issue (as well as many others), so it would have been to look a gift horse in the mouth for her to refuse the right to respond.

Meanwhile Adrian Windisch has arrived late in an attempt to crash the party for the Greens.

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Oranjepan asks:
I wonder whether Salter realises the inappropriateness and inaccuracy of his words?

In making such statements he brings politics in general into disrepute and seriously abuses his position of office - it is not "just harmless banter". I have heard him say that he is a strong supporter of our national institutions, so why does he undermine our democracy in this way?

I am tempted to infer that this outburst reflects a psychological flaw or some inferiority complex in him. After all he is a prime exponent of the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" line of argument as well as a strong campaigner for ID Cards and against freedom of information.

Inconsistency, anyone?