I do not have much time to spend on this blog most days, and I prefer to leave even offensive comments standing, on the basis that they usually display the malice and limitations of their authors.

I’ve been impelled to revisit this by some of the misrepresentation of history, of National policy and about me that is a feature of this election, under a law that prevents free speech in response.

So for example I’ve decided to remove false comments  from now on, when I get around to seeing them, unless their falsity can speak for itself in relation to the post. This removal policy will mainly apply to commenters with a history of  no integrity in debate.

The first example is "Jason". He consistently misrepresents points to set up a straw man to burn. I’ve left them in the past because his reasoning is so wet it douses his matches. His straw men survive, looking silly.

But the Labour campaign relies on misrepresentation and the law’s restrictions on the ability to reply. When integrity in debate goes there may a kind of Gresham’s law at work (freely circulating counterfeit currency destroys reliance on the good currency as well as the fake).

So I’ll start in my small corner, and make sure my site at least is not helping some of their liars. If you are wondering what straw broke this camel’s back I’ll leave the trivial but false comment in the first response to "Boobs on bikes" as an example