Comments on: Facebook claims another political victim – Matt Lewis of ‘Conservative Future’ http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/ Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Finn http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5974 Finn Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:35:58 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5974 If you go down to the woods today
You’re sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You’d better go in disguise.
For Tory Bear‘s been checking on facebook
gathering facts and cut’n’pasting
Today’s the day Tory Bear has Matt for breakfast .
Every Tory Bear who’s been good
Is sure of a treat today.
There’s lots of marvelous things to say
And wonderful games to play.
Beneath the trees where nobody sees
They’ll stab in the back as long as they please
‘Cause that’s the way the CFers have their play.
Picnic time for Tory Bear
The little CFers are having a lovely time today
Watch them, catch them unawares
And see them panic on their holiday.
See them gaily gad about
They love to play and shout;
They never have any care;
At six o’clock their Mummies and Daddies,
Will take them home to bed,
Because they’re tired little Tory Bears.
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]]> By: AdamB http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5894 AdamB Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:57:09 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5894 This is a complete non-story. it was a 'bad taste' party and he dressed up in bad taste. There was absolutely no offence caused to the McCanns until the moment that Harry Cole and the Daily Mail wrote about it. It's political correctness gone mad!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5894','AdamB'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5894','AdamB','This is a complete non-story. it was a \'bad taste\' party and he dressed up in bad taste. There was absolutely no offence caused to the McCanns until the moment that Harry Cole and the Daily Mail wrote about it. It\'s political correctness gone mad!'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> This is a complete non-story. it was a ‘bad taste’ party and he dressed up in bad taste. There was absolutely no offence caused to the McCanns until the moment that Harry Cole and the Daily Mail wrote about it. It’s political correctness gone mad!
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]]> By: tory boys never grow up http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5881 tory boys never grow up Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:41:36 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5881 Actually we should thank Facebook for helping weed out this complete idiot from public life for a very long time. Just imagine if Facebook had been around in the old Bullingdon club days or when Ann Winterton was a student.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5881','tory boys never grow up'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5881','tory boys never grow up','Actually we should thank Facebook for helping weed out this complete idiot from public life for a very long time. Just imagine if Facebook had been around in the old Bullingdon club days or when Ann Winterton was a student.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Actually we should thank Facebook for helping weed out this complete idiot from public life for a very long time. Just imagine if Facebook had been around in the old Bullingdon club days or when Ann Winterton was a student.
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]]> By: asquith http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5871 asquith Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:36:16 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5871 Because he doesn't believe a word of what he is saying: it is an opinion I'd respect if not agree with, if it weren't for the fact that he plainly doesn't hold it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5871','asquith'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5871','asquith','Because he doesn\'t believe a word of what he is saying: it is an opinion I\'d respect if not agree with, if it weren\'t for the fact that he plainly doesn\'t hold it.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Because he doesn’t believe a word of what he is saying: it is an opinion I’d respect if not agree with, if it weren’t for the fact that he plainly doesn’t hold it.
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]]> By: asquith http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5870 asquith Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:35:01 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5870 Am I the only person who is disgusted by Harry Cole's role in all this? He rides the high horse, claiming to be outraged & po-facedly insiting that "it is best in the long run that they were outed now, rather than allowing people who can show such lack of compassion and intelligence to progress up the greasy pole", which I'd accept as a valid opinion if it came from Sir Bufton Tufton who fought in the Boer War & has seen society go to the dogs ever since, but not from someone like him. I prefer the alternative solution, that he's knifing Lewis in the back to get attention from the higher ups & generally further his own career. Utterly shameless & despicable & I for one hope it backfires. Delete this if you like, at least you'll know I said it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5870','asquith'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5870','asquith','Am I the only person who is disgusted by Harry Cole\'s role in all this? He rides the high horse, claiming to be outraged & po-facedly insiting that \"it is best in the long run that they were outed now, rather than allowing people who can show such lack of compassion and intelligence to progress up the greasy pole\", which I\'d accept as a valid opinion if it came from Sir Bufton Tufton who fought in the Boer War & has seen society go to the dogs ever since, but not from someone like him. \r\n\r\nI prefer the alternative solution, that he\'s knifing Lewis in the back to get attention from the higher ups & generally further his own career.\r\n\r\nUtterly shameless & despicable & I for one hope it backfires.\r\n\r\nDelete this if you like, at least you\'ll know I said it.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Am I the only person who is disgusted by Harry Cole’s role in all this? He rides the high horse, claiming to be outraged & po-facedly insiting that “it is best in the long run that they were outed now, rather than allowing people who can show such lack of compassion and intelligence to progress up the greasy pole”, which I’d accept as a valid opinion if it came from Sir Bufton Tufton who fought in the Boer War & has seen society go to the dogs ever since, but not from someone like him.

I prefer the alternative solution, that he’s knifing Lewis in the back to get attention from the higher ups & generally further his own career.

Utterly shameless & despicable & I for one hope it backfires.

Delete this if you like, at least you’ll know I said it.

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]]> By: Clarissa http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5869 Clarissa Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:34:15 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5869 I think the most important two lessons we can all learn from this entire affair is firstly, be very careful who you call a friend (and by extension accept the friend request from on facebook) as it was a member of his own friends list who took the screencaps which got him into so much trouble, so security settings for non-friends wouldn't have done an awful lot of good. And secondly, the old adage "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" is clearly completely flawed. Keep your friends close, and just don't be facebook friends with your enemies.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5869','Clarissa'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5869','Clarissa','I think the most important two lessons we can all learn from this entire affair is firstly, be very careful who you call a friend (and by extension accept the friend request from on facebook) as it was a member of his own friends list who took the screencaps which got him into so much trouble, so security settings for non-friends wouldn\'t have done an awful lot of good. \r\nAnd secondly, the old adage \"keep your friends close, but your enemies closer\" is clearly completely flawed. Keep your friends close, and just don\'t be facebook friends with your enemies.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> I think the most important two lessons we can all learn from this entire affair is firstly, be very careful who you call a friend (and by extension accept the friend request from on facebook) as it was a member of his own friends list who took the screencaps which got him into so much trouble, so security settings for non-friends wouldn’t have done an awful lot of good.
And secondly, the old adage “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” is clearly completely flawed. Keep your friends close, and just don’t be facebook friends with your enemies.
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]]> By: Shaun Pilkington http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5868 Shaun Pilkington Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:44:49 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5868 in law school they teach you to write nothing down as it may be end up having to be echanged with the opposition. This is no different. Shoot the message, not the messenger and also premise whether the fact that going to a bad taste party as a charachter then held to be in bad taste is shuch an awful, inappropriate thing or if its just caving in to populist tabloid opprobrium. What if he'd gone as Hitler, or a waffen-SS guard? What about a Hamas fighter who's charter calls for the death of all jews? How can you do a bad-taste party and politically survive without going as a white middle class heterosexual male which is clearly in bad taste for our politically correct overlords and if you were a monogamous male you may even pass the tabloid test. This is a nonsesne story that has Mandy slapped all over it. I mean, why are we discussing a Tory student and not, for example, how the parties to the Gaza conflict ignore our Great Leader's calls for ceasefire or indeed why the great leader feels Israel should cease fire and just suck up 6000+ rocket strikes like a man. Or not talk about the failing economy or why borrowing to get get out of a borrowing driven collapse is not oxymoronic. No, can't talk about that. Better to talk about a Tory student. Oh yes.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5868','Shaun Pilkington'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5868','Shaun Pilkington','in law school they teach you to write nothing down as it may be end up having to be echanged with the opposition. This is no different. Shoot the message, not the messenger and also premise whether the fact that going to a bad taste party as a charachter then held to be in bad taste is shuch an awful, inappropriate thing or if its just caving in to populist tabloid opprobrium. What if he\'d gone as Hitler, or a waffen-SS guard? What about a Hamas fighter who\'s charter calls for the death of all jews? How can you do a bad-taste party and politically survive without going as a white middle class heterosexual male which is clearly in bad taste for our politically correct overlords and if you were a monogamous male you may even pass the tabloid test.\r\n\r\nThis is a nonsesne story that has Mandy slapped all over it. I mean, why are we discussing a Tory student and not, for example, how the parties to the Gaza conflict ignore our Great Leader\'s calls for ceasefire or indeed why the great leader feels Israel should cease fire and just suck up 6000+ rocket strikes like a man. Or not talk about the failing economy or why borrowing to get get out of a borrowing driven collapse is not oxymoronic. No, can\'t talk about that. Better to talk about a Tory student. Oh yes.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> in law school they teach you to write nothing down as it may be end up having to be echanged with the opposition. This is no different. Shoot the message, not the messenger and also premise whether the fact that going to a bad taste party as a charachter then held to be in bad taste is shuch an awful, inappropriate thing or if its just caving in to populist tabloid opprobrium. What if he’d gone as Hitler, or a waffen-SS guard? What about a Hamas fighter who’s charter calls for the death of all jews? How can you do a bad-taste party and politically survive without going as a white middle class heterosexual male which is clearly in bad taste for our politically correct overlords and if you were a monogamous male you may even pass the tabloid test.

This is a nonsesne story that has Mandy slapped all over it. I mean, why are we discussing a Tory student and not, for example, how the parties to the Gaza conflict ignore our Great Leader’s calls for ceasefire or indeed why the great leader feels Israel should cease fire and just suck up 6000+ rocket strikes like a man. Or not talk about the failing economy or why borrowing to get get out of a borrowing driven collapse is not oxymoronic. No, can’t talk about that. Better to talk about a Tory student. Oh yes.

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]]> By: Candid http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5867 Candid Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:18:17 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5867 It's a bit of a shame that this guy will now be condemed for his entire life. He should not have been so stupid as to ignore the privacy settings on Facebook but now everytime he goes for a job the employers will search on google and find this. What chance will he have? A name change is in order me thinks!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5867','Candid'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5867','Candid','It\'s a bit of a shame that this guy will now be condemed for his entire life. He should not have been so stupid as to ignore the privacy settings on Facebook but now everytime he goes for a job the employers will search on google and find this. What chance will he have? A name change is in order me thinks!'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> It’s a bit of a shame that this guy will now be condemed for his entire life. He should not have been so stupid as to ignore the privacy settings on Facebook but now everytime he goes for a job the employers will search on google and find this. What chance will he have? A name change is in order me thinks!
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]]> By: LFAT http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5862 LFAT Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:57:34 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5862 Well, yes, obviously! I don't think there are many people who would go as far as he did, even at a bad taste party.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5862','LFAT'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5862','LFAT','Well, yes, obviously! I don\'t think there are many people who would go as far as he did, even at a bad taste party.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Well, yes, obviously! I don’t think there are many people who would go as far as he did, even at a bad taste party.
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]]> By: jameshigham http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2009/01/10/facebook-claims-another-political-victim-matt-lewis-of-conservative-future/#comment-5860 jameshigham Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:22:01 +0000 http://www.lettersfromatory.com/?p=1819#comment-5860 Pratty thing to do, all the same.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('5860','jameshigham'); return false;">Reply to this comment</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('5860','jameshigham','Pratty thing to do, all the same.'); return false;">Quote this comment</a></div> Pratty thing to do, all the same.
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