Mail speculation - Mostly wrong

At least that's what I think...

So I'm going to put it to the test, as often as possible I'm going to pull some Mail speculation out and comment on it, record it and wait until the truth becomes obvious.

Today it's "Is it a Dannii boy? X Factor judge Minogue drops a big hint about the sex of her unborn child"

The major speculation in this is that the unborn child of Dannii Minogue is a boy because of a picture of a babygro seemed to be one for a baby boy. For one, some baby clothes can be quite unisex, and isn't it also possible that the couple don't want to know until it is born and are buying some stuff for both eventuality.

In any case, all this is pure speculation, and in a couple of months time I'm sure all will be revealed. I would just love it, if the Mail managed to guess wrong in a 50/50 situation.

EDIT: Oh bollocks, I managed to pull out one of the rare occasions where the Daily Mail gets something right.

I don't normally single out comments...

... but this one from Polly Toynbee's excellent rebuttal of Call Me Dave's Guardian comment piece is so stupid in a 'clearly this person has some intelligence' kinda way.

Unlike a lot of BBC Have Your Say comments, it is properly punctuated and readable, but still monumentally wrong in almost every way

Taking it from the beginning...

So not such bad chaps really. If only they could get rid of "Dave" and give us someone else. David Davis perhaps. These policies are just sensible. There is no reason to be anything other than skeptical of the climate change case, bankers' pay caps are asinine, regulation is the problem and the 50p top tax rate is just idiotic.

Wow. Where to start? The ludicrous climate change denial, lack of commitment to cutting wages the wages of and taxing the very top earners, on to the most astonishing thing ever... 'regulation is the problem.' I pray you're not talking about the unrestrained financial sector which got us in this mess in the first place. Maybe they're just talking about regulation in general,  something which makes it even stupider.

Continuing the stupidity... Thatcher was a progressive. Right, that makes sense.

I assume that in her rush to get words that press all her readers' buttons - fundamentalist for instance - Ms Toynbee has sacrificed common sense and logical coherence. If it is a return to Conservative roots - and it isn't - then of course it is a change. It is progress, of sorts. Thatcher was a radical and a progressive. Dave is not. Just because you don't like the direction she took the country doesn't mean she did not bring about real change.

Progress does not mean going backwards you utter tool! 'Just because you don't like the direction she took the country .' You mean backwards right? 'doesn't mean she did not bring about real change.' Change in a backwards direction is regression you rhetorically challenged buffoon.

The worst thing about all of this is, that this is a typical Tory voter who demonstrates why Cameron's 'caring conservatives' are not the progressives they claim to be. It's enough to make you go and smash your brains out on a wall.

Paul Wiffen - The UKIP racist standing in my constituency

It has been said many times before that UKIP are the BNP for middle class people who aren't openly racist, but harbour those sort of thoughts, and it appears that this may actually be true.

The Telegraph reports that Paul Wiffen - the London UKIP chair and PPC for Ilford South - has been suspended from any party positions (but still allowed to campaign for UKIP in his constituency) for this racist rant on the website Community Care...

Britain is full, you prat! Even your scummy, illiterate Grauniad admits it!

In the circumstances, I think "get lost" is positively polite. "Go forth and multiply" elsewhere would be my wording.

You left-wing scum are all the same, wanting to hand our birthright to Romanian gypsies who beat their wives and children into begging and stealing money they can gamble with, Muslim nutters who want to kill us and put us all under mediaeval Sharia law, the same Africans who sold their Afro-Caribbean brothers into a slavery that Britain was the first to abolish (but you still want to apologize for!)

Worry about where we are going to live and grow food, you wanker, not the UKIP policy that might just save your worthless skin! 

I shouldn't be surprised that this sort of idiocy has emerged from UKIP, but this is a colossal mistake just before an election. 

Digging deeper it seems surprising that this story first broke in Hugh Muir's Guardian diary almost a week ago yet it took until today for the Telegraph and BBC London News to pick it up. Muir commented that...

The end came quickly. We rang Ukip, and though he seemed quite defiant when we rang him, they last night suspended him from any party position with a view to disciplinary proceedings. He was a character. But he hardly seemed very nice.

Still the question remains, if UKIP aren't a racist party, why aren't they stopping him standing in Ilford South and why isn't any of this on their website.

Perhaps the funniest part of the whole this is his apology...

Explaining what sparked his outburst he said: “I was very surprised to see such a party political piece on a website called Community Care, and when I read the lies about Ukip being a racist party, I just saw red and fired off an angry email.

So he saw someone saying that UKIP were racist, and proceded to prove them right... some things are beyond satire.