Just had another scary Twitter follower appear

[blamebrampton]

wemyss  and shezan , you in particular will laugh at this.

I have a Twitter account, which I rarely use and is under a different name. One of the people who is on my flist and on my Twitter list posted a link to my Aus politics in Harry Potter terms post of last month using my Twitter name – which was perfectly fine! A very small number of people put two and two together and followed my Twitter after reading the post. Very briefly in most cases, for reasons that I will outline.

Every single one of them has been a Conservative. A really, really conservative Conservative, not an I find Boris Johnson strangely appealing and do believe in free trade but not in a wholly unregulated market, dipping my little toe in the waters of conservatism but really a Bleeding-Heart Leftie type, like me.

In fact, most have been so scarily conservative that I have not been able to Follow them on Twitter because I would froth too much, and I prefer to use it as a medium to discuss hairstyles, local cafes, meet-ups and Bob Katter on Q&A.

Intrigued, I vanity-googled my post to see if they were all coming from somewhere, and discovered that there are people who read that post who are convinced I am a card-carrying socially wet, economically dry Liberal. Which for Americans would equate to a Reagan-era Republican before they turned all gung-ho and Rambo-esque, and for Brits equates to, er, Boris Johnson.

I am counting this as a win on the not trumpeting bias front. Alas, we have a government again now, though, as both sides have appointed the previous leaders to high ranking positions in a bid to 'get past all this messy leadership coup business', things are still entertaining.

And in related internet matters, thanks, fourth_rose !

Comments

[quatrefoil.livejournal.com]

See, this is what happens when you are seduced by the perfect silvery hair of Malcolm Turnbull. It's a slippery slope which clearly you're sliding down if you think there is anything much redeemable about Boris Johnson. There is clearly a need for re-education:

Repeat after me: What do Tories do? They grind the faces of the working poor.

Then go and listen to the complete works of Alistair Hulett.

And follow our PM's lead and buy yourself a book on the Tolpuddle Martyrs.

Rinse. Repeat.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I only love him for his cycleways! I can quit him any time!

(Do you think if I bought Lucy T a cuppa she'd let me know what Malcolm uses on his hair?)

[quatrefoil.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I think I'm going to have to stage an intervention.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You live in Canberra, you have no idea of the seductive power of a functional cycleway ...

[quatrefoil.livejournal.com]

That's *why* I live in Canberra.