Curly’s Corner Shop, the blog!

This Monkey has a fixation with matters sexual

Sexual innuendo, half truths, falsehoods, speculation, defamation, character assassination, denigration, discrimination, slurs, muck raking, gossip, tittle tattle, unfounded rumour, and genuine crap.

All a reasonable description of the latest batch of posts offered up from one of the borough’s other bloggers who prefers to operate behind a mask of anonymity on twin sites. No point in providing a link, if you want it you will find it. Suffice to say that the standard of blogging is bad for the reputation of anyone writing from South Tyneside, the targets are certainly not random and the birdshot flies mainly in the direction of Labour councillors, council officials, and Tory councillor David Potts, the South Tyneside Independent Alliance and the Lib-Dems have so far received very little in the way of flying pellets and monkey shit (that’s not to say that they aren’t in the firing line, but it is unlikely).

One of the first to offer comments on the two new sites was newly elected South Tyneside Independent Cllr. Ahmed Khan, now just who let him know that the sites were online and ready to accept comments? I suspect that Cllr. Khan may just happen to know who the author of this tirade of personal abuse is, and I hope that it is not coming from within the deputy leader’s ranks!. Even a libertarian, such as I, who would otherwise defend free speech is appalled at the type of blogging going on at these sites – remember, we must all be wary of the consequences of our own actions.

Yet the text and the appearance suggest a journalist’s hand at work, they are well written (and the pieces on persecution of journalists betrayed a good head for research, although other research hasn’t been quite so accurate.) Whoever the Whipped Monkey is, he/she may well have a boss, and the boss may well not be the most pleasant warden in the zoo after seeing the way his charge operates.

Blogging can be a way of exercising one’s frustrations, but political blogging is far more successful if it offers reasonable alternatives when one is opposing the prevailing views, it can help to keep the ruling Labour group in South Tyneside on it’s toes and help hold them to account. However, even I must concede that they have a majority and a mandate for their policies, and therefore wherever possible I try to oppose and offer suggestions in a way that may influence decisions or cause a pause for thought.

The Whipped Monkey seems able to just exercise his sexual frustrations at present!

Curly only has one boss, and Mrs. Curly is not well pleased, but she will allow speculation as to the identity of the cheeky monkey, if you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments.

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