Quote of the day - how to be a successful troll!

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Those Breitbart London folk are a curate's egg - too much UKIP apologia interspersed with the occassional flash of genuis. Often from James Delingpole - like this:

At one point, a man with a beard came up to confront me. He accused me - no really - of being in the pay of Big Oil, assured me - again, no really - that 97 per cent of the world's scientists believe in "climate change" and said that people like me had no business being at Glastonbury festival.

I told him he was a fascist.

Wonderful!

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In which the BBC trolls Councillors for a story...

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I got a nice email from polling company ComRes asking me to answer a few questions. As Guido reports, these questions amount to trolling for a story:

The questions include:

• asking if they think “climate change is not happening”
• whether “Immigration has had a negative impact on Britain”
• whether “legalising gay marriage will cost my party more votes than it gains at the next Election”
• whether they support a ban on the burkha
• whether Cameron and Osborne are “arrogant”
• whether they support an electoral pact with UKIP

I suppose it's funny in a way - and there will be some colleague who hold some pretty whack views - but the BBC, who commissioned this, really should be ashamed of such a blatant attempt to troll for a nice silly season story using an opinion poll (paid for with tax money).

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