Our ethic of progressive blogging

I signed up to a statement drafted by the Fabian Society, snappily titled 'our ethic of progressive blogging' which is about not using the internet to make up personal smears about our political opponents but instead write earnest and lengthy posts about policy ideas.

To my genuine delight, when this was posted on the 'Liberal Conspiracy' site, it enraged some Liberal Democrat activists for reasons that I find completely impossible to fathom and has generated (at time of writing) over 100 comments of complaints and insults.