Point-scoring males indeed
Posted on Apr 25 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, Blogistan, The Stupid, Media
The other week, Jonathan Freedland wrote in his Guardian column that the blogosphere, in its current form, risks putting off everyone but “point-scoring males”. He compared it to a public meeting, it being obvious that nothing would ever get done if debate were conducted that way publicly. He’s right, of course.
But perhaps he should have visited the meeting of Housing Forum Cymru last night. The idea was for candidates from each of the four main parties1 to outline their proposed policies for social housing — a big problem at the moment, especially in Wales — should they get themselves elected next thursday.
Yet the Labour representative, whose name I instantly committed to oblivion, spent more time hectoring his Conservative Party opponent about 20-year-old decisions than actually attempting to engage with the issue at hand. Point-scoring males, indeed — and that’s from the party of government.
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1 Yes, we get four parties in Wales — as we should. They’re perhaps not the parties that they should be though.
