TROLLS: Why DO they bother?

We have a few resident trolls on here. Or perhaps I should say trainee trolls, as that would be more accurate. They come out with the same old rubbish, day in and day out, trying their utmost to stir up trouble on the threads and my blog.

The trouble is, they are so transparent, that it's become slightly embarrassing.

The majority of trolls here first appeared on a news story about the BNP's rather vicious tactics. Naturally, I took a stand against the British Nazis and, forever since, they have daily scoured News Shopper for me in the hope of bullying me into submission. Just as naturally, I have successfully fought off the cowards without a defeat to my name.

They really aren't very clever, this lot, though I think they are sort of learning. I mean, when they first made an appearance, they openly admitted living in places like Huddersfield, Cardiff, Manchester and Newcastle. You see, the BNP (British Nazi Party) members and supporters email one another when they read something in the press that is derogatory against their beloved, far-right, neo-Nazi, party.

I think a lot of the British Nazis have become rather disillusioned with trying to get one over on me and have retired back under their stones.

Occasionally, sausage and mash AKA bubbles and squeaks, makes an appearance. He heralds from the old BNP story but keeps changing his name in the hope of fooling me and my loyal followers. Perhaps if he took his unimaginative mind away from the frying pan for five minutes, he might actually come up with a name that would make us think twice. Though having said that, his awful spelling, punctuation and grammar, would give away his game sooner rather than later; of that I have no doubt.

So read the silly outbursts of these trolls but take them with a good old fashioned pinch of salt. They have nothing to contribute to news stories and blogs except their big, wooden, racist spoons.

I have been accused of being a troll on many occasions. I even went along with it once and the gullible ones believed me. But I am not a troll because you all know who I am. My blogs are evidence of what I believe and are read by tens of thousands of loyal readers, eager to educate themselves and be told the difference between good, bad, right and wrong.

The next time you read someone frying-up trouble ('frying-up' - see what I did there?) on the news stories and blogs, do what I do. Ignore them.

Remember: The only way to kill a troll is to starve it of attention. So don't feed it!

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