“Is the blog-man here,” asked McNulty sitting down at the briefing table. Lobbydog put up his hand.It was the start of a slightly bizarre exchange I had with the Employment Minister this morning, in which he revealed he was a Lobbydog reader.
At the last briefing he joked with other hacks that he wanted to ban me – but deep down it seems Tony “attack-dog” McNulty is actually a puppy, a glutton for punishment even.
Asked by another hack if he read their blog he answered: “You haven’t offended me yet.”
An invitation if ever I heard one.
He added that he reads Iain Dale every day – one in the eye for Draper and Campbell.
This blog certainly has a history of giving McNulty the odd slap and its readers are never shy in sounding off.
However, the minister said he’d resisted leaving a comment so far – come on Tony, you know you want to.
“I’m a big West Wing fan," he said to me. "Do you like the West Wing?”
“There’s an episode where Josh, who is the number two on the communications side, decides he’s going to answer something on the blogs.
“His secretary tells him not to because he gets obsessed when they then answer back – he has to say ‘that’s not right. That’s not right. Where do these people live? What planet are they on?’“But really, I love my blogs.”
So bloggers – McNulty doesn’t know what planet you’re living on. Why don’t you tell him?
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I'm sorely tempted, Mr Dog, to tell Mr McNutter what I think of him.
I resist, only in the safe and certain knowledge that you would, no doubt, judge my language unfit for public display.
McNutty is an archetypal Labour minister. Arrogant, boorish and unconvincing...
McNutter is what the Brooklyn people would call a 'gavoon'.
Gavoon: A knucklehead.
A terrible bully and awful individual with the intellect of a dead flea still fat with the last bloodsucking, expenses binge. His voice sounds so like every other trade union and socialist fat cat. Ghastly.
Disagree. Tony McNulty is a competent minister compared to most of the others in Government. Irritatingly so, since his policies make me sick. But he does a good job presenting them.
Oh and by the way, he's a fat slob.
Have you seen the gut on him?
a minor point, but Josh is not "the number two on the communications side", who is Sam (later replaced by Will). Josh is the Deputy Chief of Staff.
Any big WW fan should know that.
Looks like a National Service bully.
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