Woops! Scrapbook claims an accidental scalp

When Scrapbook and Pam Nash started poking a stick at the holy terror of Liberal Democrat blogging (not the first to do so) the last expectation was that the latest spat would culminate in local newsaper coverage in Mr. Ahmed’s native Pendle. Suffice it to say that his insensitive comments on troop deaths did not go down well in Pennine Lancashire.

Counter intuitively, having uber-bloggers mock you (800,000 readers/month) isn’t enough; the local press (circulation 27,481) needed to get involved before Cowley Street acted to drag Irfan’s online presence to the dignitas clinic:

Scrapbook honestly hopes to see an older, wiser and more considered Irfan back on the internets at some point.