INTRODUCING a brand new award folks.

And this should serve as a reminder as to why the Tories used to describe themselves as The Nasty Party. 

Bupendra Bhakta has been leaving comments on this site for a while. But unlike most of my other detractors, he drips pure poison with every syllable he writes. I know that sometimes it’s difficult to convey sarcasm, humour or irony on this medium, but I get the impression Bupendra has no use for such things (if he’s aware they exist at all).

Take his latest nasty little comment in the thread started off by this post:

Anonemouse (11.29 am): “Is the advertisement income from your blog going to be declared in the register of members interests sometime soon?”
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No need – I have read the Parliamentary Rules Book in front of me: any income under £1.00 need not be declared.;-)

There you go, another ’smear’ for Ani to get Antsi about.

(Psst, Ani, like to take a guess on which Party absolutely wrote the rule book on ’smearing’.)

Earlier in the same thread, he treats us to this beautiful little piece of poetic prose:

I know it’s modish on here to praise Mr Harris for his integrity.

His blog is reasonably entertaining, particularly when compared to the dross any other Labour person produces on the web (and Dolly’sDailyDisaster.com aka LabourLost deserves special mention here).

However I’d be more inclined to fall over myself to praise his integrity had he not called on this blog for Peter Hain to be returned to the Cabinet; the same Peter Hain who narrowly escaped prosecution and received severe censure from The Commons Standards and Privileges Committee for his failure to declare donations. Why the hell should we the taxpayer have people like that inflicted upon us?

And of course Tom’s unrequited love for the serially venal and grossly incompetent Tony Blair (who of course gave him the transport Ministry) is particularly nauseating.

It’s the “he still has fleas from lying down with beggars” sign-off that I find particularly poetic and uplifting.

If you can be bothered, trawl through the rest of his comments from the last few weeks and you’ll see that here is a very bitter, unhappy individual. Most of the other anti-Labour commenters at least make an effort to engage, to respect me and other commenters, even those (shock! horror!) with whom they don’t agree.

Not so our Bupendra, no, no, no… Common courtesy is obviously an intolerable weakness for those such as he. I think he’ll be “happier” (however he wishes to define that word) leaving comments elsewhere in future. Because so far he’s been the equivalent of a loud, obnoxious drunk at a dinner party, and I don’t want any of my guests feeling obliged to stare at the cutlery until he finally goes outside to vomit in the garden.