Feb/10
22:21 4
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
When will some people realise that the internet is for life, not just for Christmas?
If you are a reader of Recess Monkey or the Internet and have realised comments from a Liberal Monkey and you are wondering who he is, let me point you towards him. Liberal Monkey is yours truly, yep, it’s a name that I have been thinking of using for a while – Irfan Ahmed
“Tory Bear along with other people are questioning if I am Liberal Monkey, I was planning on keeping it a secret but as the blogosphere is known for not keeping any secrets the simple answer is, I am Liberal Monkey.” – Irfan Ahmed
Come back, Irfan. It’s been too long!
Feb/10
09:57 3
Recess Monkey 2004 – 2010?
UPDATE 10:06 D’oh! It seems Devil’s Kitchen had this yesterday. Slowly, slowly catchy monkey?
UPDATE 10:11 This tweet from Hilton confirms it. But, seriously, what an odd name for a children’s entertainment group.
Like the reformation of a once-beloved band, Recess Monkey wasn’t quite the same after returning from a hiatus of several months. It seemed Alex Hilton, the enfant terrible of Labour blogging, was ever busy with other projects and was too often deputised by lesser diarists, one of whom had undergone a funny-ectomy courtesty of Cowley Street.
Ever inquisitive as to what Irfan Ahmed Liberal Monkey Mr. Monkey is up to, Scrapbook’s visit to Recess Monkey this morning offered compelling evidence that the left’s favourite primate has finally been dispatched to the big parliamentary estate in the sky:
The recessmonkey.com domain now redirects to recessmonkeytown.com, the website for “the acclaimed children’s music band from Seattle, WA”. However Alex Hilton has promised members of the Recess Monkey Facebook group that he would start blogging again soon and recently appeared on Sky News opposite Tory Bear.
Is that an Iain Dale style ego-blog on the horizon?
Nov/09
07:33 5
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.
Nov/09
22:00 14
Lib Dem blogger Irfan Ahmed: families of dead soldiers profit from their demise
UPDATE: It seems this Scrapbook post finally did it for poor Irfan, who has been defenestrated by Cowley Street. See the full details here.
A rambling post on lettergate: so far so Irfan Ahmed, who criticises the “petty attacks on Brown” over supposed spelling mistakes in his note to Jacqui Janes. Correct. But the Liberal Democrat blogger then goes on to make a shocking attack on families of dead soldiers, who he accuses of profiting financially from their demise:
“The parents of the lost children have enjoyed the nice salaries that their children have been earning from the army” – Irfan Ahmed
This is, in the words of Pam Nash who flagged this up, “truly appalling”.
Irfan has form for overreaching himself and a habit of disappearing his controversial posts down the memory hole. He defended the practice of senior Asian men deciding how the women in some households will vote with an argument which went something along the lines of “if you don’t know anything about politics…”. When this was attacked by other Lib Dems as misogynist and, erm, illiberal he discovered the delete button. He needn’t bother this time as Scrapbook has already grabbed a copy.
Disgusting.
Aug/09
13:13 2
Bill’s comedy holiday snaps
A former president’s unofficial holiday to the Korean peninsula has generated some highly amusing snaps. Front row below (from left to right) William Jefferson Clinton (6 feet 1 inches) and Kim Jong-Il (5 feet 3 inches):
The camera angle makes it difficult to see if the Dear Leader is wearing his platform shoes again. But as North Korea settles into its status as a nuclear power this picture raises grave concerns to the international community, namely:
- What the hell is with that carpet?
- What the hell is with that wallpaper?
Was Jong-Il exchanging interior design tips with Saddam? Those looking for further amusement need look no further than the comedy-s*** website of North Korea’s official news agency, where the proud hosts have dedicated an entire section to Bill’s visit:
With headlines such as ‘Bill Clinton Arrives Here’ and ‘Bill Clinton Leaves Here’ Scrapbook can only wonder whether Liberal Democrat blogger Irfan Ahmed has been moonlighting for the DPRK?
Jul/09
17:43 3
Quote of the Day
You’ve got to hand it to this man’s way with words:
“The Conservatives are still fresh cakes that have come out of the oven, they haven’t smelt the custard [sic]” — Irfan Ahmed
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