Discussions about David’s latest campaign on the excellent found website. Note how David amusingly defends his position through his Andrew Meekings persona.
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Nic Dafis [email] [web] 10:08:57 8/9/2004
I'm starting to have my doubts about this - not about his central points (though it's difficult to see how this poll could *not* have been fixed - there are people on maes-e happily admitting to having voted 100 times for Glyndwr, for example). The thing that's worrying me is that the two blogs pushing this story look like they're Jones' handiwork, and that he's "interviewing" himself to boost the story's profile. Which seems to be working...
Dan [email] [web] 1:56:10 9/9/2004
Of course they are his handywork. Both the walesontheweb blog (and thank you so much for chosing my proje ts name for your blog mr Jones), and the welshassembly blog are his handywork. Have you taken a good look around the Wikis too? They make fantastic reading about David Jones and the trail of destruction he leaves in his wake across the country.
Dan [email] [web] 2:02:24 9/9/2004
Sorry I should have backed that up with some form of evidence. Firstly, try googleing for "Andrew Meekings" ... Nothing. That in itself is suspect. Then ask yourself who in their right mind cares so much about David Jones getting the sack for gross misconduct that they wrote a fansite blog about it.... twice! I'd recomend going back and reading the history on cloudsoup.com but alas David changed his blogging software every week and never backs it up. All the juicy articles have been removed though as he was required to take them down by his employers at the time. I should express at this point that these are my personal views and not those of my employer in any way shape or form.
Jim 2:19:16 9/9/2004
Thanks for all that... I'd just got as far as googling for Andrew Meekings myself and thinking "oh, hello, that's suspicious." Of course, he's clever enough not to buy a domain for the Meekings blog; if he did he'd have to use his real name for the whois. I'm currently wondering what the gross misconduct he got fired for was, since according to CC it had nothing to do with the poll.
Dan [email] [web] 2:27:00 9/9/2004
I couldn't possibly comment but ask the walls, most of them know around Aberystwyth ;)
Andrew Meekings [email] [web] 13:02:00 10/9/2004
Sorry, Dan, didn't mean to step on the toes of your website, www.walesontheweb.org If you want to know exactly why David Jones got fired, why not email him and ask him? I'm sure you could work out his eamil address.
Jim 3:01:23 13/9/2004
Incidentally, David (for I'm pretty sure it's you, paranoid rantings and all) I find it rather odd that you write a nice, polite comment about Dan's site here; and then immediately afterwards write a long article slogging it off in your blog. It looks like the process went something like this:Dan: Oi, you've nicked my website name! David (to Dan): Have I? Oh dear. I'm terribly sorry. David (shouts): Hey, everyone! Dan's website is shit!
Jim 3:02:53 13/9/2004
I'm not attacking your point of view, by the way; you make a lot of valid points. It's just that your political skills are.. well, frankly dreadful - so bad that your attitude is tainting your views and making them seem less valid than they are.
Andrew Meekings [email] [web] 3:58:23 18/9/2004
I was pointing out a few problems with an taxpayer-funded website. It doesn't belong to
Dan. Then again, if he'd like to lay claim to the odd navigation, missng links and invalid markup that's ok by me and perhaps he'd care to fix them. But I'm sure he isn't responsible for the confusion of purpose and policy.
