So a couple of IT kids set up BorisWatch on Friday 2nd May "Registered on: 03-May-2008" in an attempt to, let's use a block quote here because this is rich;

Enhance the accountability of the new London mayoralty

Fine. Good. Some self-styled ombudsman with a religio-capitalist (Ed: Uh, what) agenda have decided it's up to them to shed some light on the Boris Johnson regime. Editor Nadir Jeewa admits to having been a part of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, "an international pan-Islamist, Sunni, vanguard political party whose goal is to combine all Muslim countries in a unitary Islamic state or caliphate, ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph head of state elected by Muslims". Delightful! While Tom Barry, the "scruffy IT guy working for a major ISP (Virgin, I'm guessing)," was called in 2008 by Andrew Gilligan,

one tireless Johnson-basher

Oo-er.

Regardless, you've gotta wonder what these nerds people who claim to, "read through TfL Board minutes so you don’t have to," (nerd) are doing picking on a modest blog like KeepRightOnline?

Following our story (for which we credited, albeit with a friendly ribbing) BorisWatch on the BBC's inability to get the name of a Transport Advisor to BoJo correct; BorisWatch proceeded to issue these kind words on their blog regarding our coverage.

Oh, and note to tiresome trolls - this isn’t the BBC being biased or unethical merely being crap at reporting on the website and indulging in churnalism, which is hardly unusual or unique to the BBC.

Wait a minute. Isn't that what we put it down to? Or did you just read the headline and nothing else? Goodness me.

Oh and by the way, brilliant IT guys that you are, you have some broken links on your "About" page. You're welcome.

Oops, did I just say that? Okay okay I take it back. But what's up with this? Either we're incredibly ignorant, or the BBC are incredibly stupid. I prefer to assume the latter but am welcome to the former, should someone prove me wrong. A quick look on Google and London.gov.uk has left me baffled still. Props to BorisWatch (though not sure on how sound the site is in general!) for catching this one.

Who is Kabir Das?

UPDATED (see picture): The BBC were apparently trying to name Transport Advisor to BoJo, "Kulveer Ranger." Slight typo then, eh boys?
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Thank goodness. I thought it would never happen. Who's betting Carswell and Hannan are off having a celebratory glass of Pimms, too?

In Totnes, the Conservatives are due to hold 'open primaries' similar to that of the United States, whereby the party will nominate several candidates to run in the General Election for the constituency- and the voters of said area will choose whom is to run. (Bad sentence? 9am? Terrible tube journey? You betcha.)

KeepRightOnline don't want to repeat the BBC News on this, so have a look for yourself. The end product really is a push toward a more 'direct democracy'. A key catchphrase that's been thrown around Westminster for a while now. KRO are proponents, and we're pleased that this is being rolled out. Greater representation is a great thing and no doubt this will invoke more transparency into the political system, should all parties opt in.

If not?

Well let's hope the Tories keep at it, as I preempt this will establish much more involvement and trust from the public toward the party.

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Finally, the BBC have lifted their ban on any story non-MJ related. Now we can more easily find out what's going on in the rest of the world, as told by lefty-expense-claiming-hacks. Joy.

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The great Daniel Hannan MEP spoke to KeepRightOnline today about the recent round of European Elections, his take on the results, and the media glorification of the British National Party. Take it away Mr. Hannan...

The first point to make is that the Conservatives were the only mainstream party to get more votes than last time. The two pro-Brussels parties, Labour and the LibDems, were hammered. Anti-federalist parties won seven out of every ten ballots cast.

Sadly, this news was completely lost in all the noise about the tiny BNP (whose share of the vote, by the way, went down slightly from last time.) Why? Because journalists, like Labour politicians, indulge themselves whenever the BNP comes up. They like to make themselves feel better by ranting about fascism - thereby underlining what nice, caring, anti-racist people they are. The trouble is that, by bigging it up, they give the BNP precisely the disproportionate coverage that brought it its two seats.

By the last week of the campaign, Labour activists had given upon any attempt at positive arguments. Instead, they went around saying: "Vote Labour to stop the BNP". Sadly, their party is so detested that their words had the opposite effect.

Incidentally, I hope Nick Griffin's acceptance speech will finally have driven into the skulls of some BBC reporters that the BNP is not "far Right". The man barely mentioned immigration; instead, he spent all his time excoriating the privatisation of state industries. His is a far Left party: it believes in nationalisation, higher taxes, state subsidies for factories, massive expenditure on the NHS and state pensions and (although it tends to keep quiet about this one) the abolition of the monarchy.

Not that BBC producers care about any of this, of course. For them, "Right-wing" is a handy synonym for "baddie". Anyone who is sufficiently odious - from the revolutionary ayatollahs in Tehran to the Stalinist nostalgics in Russia - is "Right-wing" in the idiom of our state broadcaster. Is Griffin a total arse? Yup. Therefore, to your earnest BBC producer, he must be Right-wing.

Daniel Hannan MEP is a British politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party. He presently serves on the Committee on Fisheries and the Delegation for Relations with Afghanistan. Daniel is also a journalist, writing leaders and a blog for the The Daily Telegraph. He has also published several books arguing for radical democratic reform, the most recent being the incredibly sound, "The Plan," which is a KeepRightOnline 'must have'.