Well, that didn't last long ...

From labourshits.org:

Interesting reading the to and fro-ing between Elby & Draper. Elby has posed a number of questions which are pertinent, regarding what he sees as the disastrous effects of NL policy. Indeed, one includes Ms. Blears stating that NL's immigration "policy" has been a total mess.

These have been trashed. Banter between him and Draper hasn't been. Which leaves one to conclude - there will not be serious debate here about Labour policy

It looks like the "heavy hitters" (Derek Lammy, et al.) will be indulging in Labour's normal "send-only" mode of communication with faithful supplicants. If they're even writing those tiresome, tired, boring, anodyne, meaningless missives themselves.

While it's been fun watching the horror of Labour drones that someone might dare to hold a different view, they are quite simply, the dullest, most boring and most self-righteous cocks I've ever had the misfortune to meet. Old Holborn may be a weapons-grade cunt, but at least he is a funny weapons-grade cunt when he can be arsed to write his own stuff.

I asked a straightforward question of Charlie Whelan:

So Charlie, any chance of you actually facing up to your commentors here, or are you just going to be telling us what we need to hear and then leaving us to discuss it among ourselves?

Perfectly reasonable, I thought. He didn't answer (which was the answer I'd been expecting), but someone called "Mohammed Khan" did answer, saying:

Charlie - please don't demean yourself by responding to disruptive trolling idiots like Obnoxio. Derek - please do use your editorship to get rid of trolls. Just delete their entries and be shot of these juvenile infantile and pathetically hollow individuals. This should be a place for proper political discourse not some guido-esque playground for people with no friends, no lives and no real point to make.

Well, hark at her! Every substantial question that was asked about New Labour policy has been trashed. Even though I wasn't expecting Guido levels of tolerance, Derek has already gone nuclear and is just killing anything that looks remotely critical.

I said in a previous post:

That nice Dolly Draper has asked me to tell you that they do, in fact, allow critical comments on their blog. And they do. I don't know for how long, but I will give them their due, they do currently allow it.

Well, it looks like the answer was "less than 24 hours", and I don't even think I can blame Mandelsnake.

Another dismal failure from New Labour. My hope that it would be an interesting place to hang out was clearly the triumph of hope over experience.

Oh, and the cunts still haven't fixed their RSS feed. Useless, absolutely useless. Couldn't run a bath.