A Deeply Unpleasant Man - Ian Dale

Communique - Pat Davey

What do you do if: you're a failed publisher, failed bookshop owner, failed broadcaster AND you been twatted in the knackers by a party you slavishly adore yet leaves you forever paley loitering on the outside?

You set up a crappy boring blog and continue to kiss deeply the ring of a party that, let's face it, doesn't really want you. You pedal tacky gossip and adopt a 'gosh! blimey!' breathless commentary on every aspect of modern politics - however boring.

And then - you publish the personal details of a comrade. What a petty little shit you've become in your spite filled lonely bitterness and failure.

SHACKLETON

REVIEW/EDIT BY STFLDTC - TUESDAY MAY 25

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  The language here is questionable.
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  The image of a bucket of shit is objectionable. We must portray our enemies (even those who were so recently comrades) in a manner fitting the particular context of the issue. We have therefore replaced the image of a bucket of shit with a photograph of Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian Nazi collaborator. We feel this exemplifies far more accurately what we are all thinking about Patrick Shackleton right now.

Communique (Edit) Pippa Townsend

At 4:15 pm today I received a telephone call from a solicitor representing Patrick Shackleton's mother. She (the solicitor) informed me that if I did not remove the photograph of Patrick Shackleton from this blog then I personally and STFLDTC as a group may well face legal action.

We're not sure about this - can anyone advise us? In the meantime we will replace the picture of Shackleton with a not althogether disimilar image - a bucket of shit.

Well done, Pat, if only Trotsky's Mum had been a Magistrate who could have pulled a few strings, Stalin wouldn't have stood a chance. Some class warrior YOU'VE turned out to be.

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  Splitter
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  Counter-revolutionary
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  Liar

'We loved you like a brother - and you treat us this way'.
Patrick Shackleton - a non-person.

(Quizling - right)