BS detector

Hmmm Tory Bear normally has a good nose for bullshit and something about

this story

smells very fishy:

"I have been contacted by a high profile Conservative from the North West who wants to get a message out that he is so pis*** off with the Tory party for becoming the house of defectors from all political parties that he is going to canvas for the BNP in the coming June elections.

I will keep the identity of this Conservative secret as he has asked me to and this Tory also believes that the Conservatives are to lose big because they have housed defectors and the Tory members in the North West are upset with them for doing this.

Could defectors cost the Conservatives seats at the coming European elections? Will this high profile Tory and all his friends canvas for the BNP and get Nick Griffin elected in the North West? Only time will tell what the answer to these questions is but it is going to be an interesting month let me assure readers once more!"

The story comes from Pendle Lib Dem actavist and blogger

Irfan Ahmed

, who has been quick to jump in with libelous allegations in the past. Most notable was his insistence that CCHQ funded ConservativeHome and that YouGov was connected to the Conservative Party. He also has some regular

dodgy polls

that give no figures, sample statistics, or indeed a website to back up the numbers. Some serious flaws in this story too. Firstly, if this is true and that has not been confirmed, why is a Lib Dem activist giving a voice to the BNP?

But TB is going to throw it out there that this story is made up.

Essentially we are being asked to believe that this mysterious protesting tory has turned to a small town lib dem blogger to vent spleen. If they wanted to protest then why have they not gone to the local press? The whole story is dependent on anonymous hear say based on a conversation that may or may not have existed. Where is the evidence this conversation happened? Ahmed says that he had been "contacted". Can we see the emails with the names blacked out?

The flawed logic of the last paragraph has left this bear lost for words, no party is going to say no to a defection or two. It damages your opponents no end as all the headlines and press coverage are normally dominated with the defecting person laying into their former party and leader in no uncertain terms.

Ahmed has gone after a Lib Dem defector in the most

spiteful

and

bigoted

way in recent days and this "story" is another piece to that puzzle. However the whole thing reeks of bullshit. There is no evidence to suggest this is true. He's done a hatchet job on the defector and now he is attempting to smear the party the defector went to.

It is at best shoddy journalism, at worst made up.