Troll of the year
To clarify to all you idiots out there a troll isn't someone who sends abuse. A proper troll makes people look stupid without using any abuse at all. Honourable mentions to Old Holborn, who the Daily Mail called "one of Britain's vilest internet trolls" and the Iain Duncan Smith MP parody twitter account who hooks more morons per tweet than anyone else I know.
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But this years winner trolled one of the worlds most powerful men, a global icon (all be it deceased), a nation, a half full stadium and millions watching on television. Yes it's Thamsanqa Jantjie, he of the crazy hands sign language school. The excuses since are gold, we should all up our game to match his effort.
The Jack Dromey award for twitter proficiency
This award goes to the person most messing up their use of twitter and humiliating themselves. The @Number10gov was found to be following escorts, Jack Dromey himself appears to like big black male poultry. Even Sally Bercow misses out for her "oops" tweet because the winner displayed stupidity beyond all reasonable measure.
Not by a long shot. Epicurious are a New York based food website and decided to use the Boston marathon bombing to sell some scones! If there was a "face-palm moment of the year" they would double up their total.
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| Scones mend broken bones |
Ed Balls moment of the year
Good old Ed Balls, he keeps the good times coming for those who love to mock him. If spitting image were still around his puppet would probably just act the same. He is a man of many hand gestures and many many cock ups. However his best (for us anyway) moments came at the end of this year. Just this week in PMQ's David Cameron pulled off a funny, no really it was very good. Quipping at Ed Miliband after Ball revealed a new dance move he said.
Best tweeting MP of the year
Our last award goes to the MP making best use of twitter. William Hague is one of my favourites. It is of course a strictly business account with information about his role in the FCO and the usual "look at blah blah blah" tweets you see the inters send while the boss does something. However his Q & A sessions are fantastic, even being honest on overseas aid. Charlotte Leslie while not a prolific tweeter does so in a casual way, not overly preened by social media bandits. But there was a clear winner.
Michael Fabricant is by quite some margin my favourite tweeting MP. From his brilliant array of "fabatars" to making twanking cool he does what no other MP seems to be able to match, he makes us like him, even people who hate the Tory party have expressed fondness towards the man from Lich Vegas. I can't think of a better way to end the 2013 awards.
Thank you for reading and congratulations to all the winners, you thoroughly deserve your Pantzy awards. I look forward to seeing you all again in the new year.
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Good old Ed Balls, he keeps the good times coming for those who love to mock him. If spitting image were still around his puppet would probably just act the same. He is a man of many hand gestures and many many cock ups. However his best (for us anyway) moments came at the end of this year. Just this week in PMQ's David Cameron pulled off a funny, no really it was very good. Quipping at Ed Miliband after Ball revealed a new dance move he said.
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| HE'S GONNA BLOW! |
‘Ah! We’ve got a new hand gesture from the Shadow Chancellor! I’d have thought after today’s briefing in the papers the hand gesture from the Shadow Chancellor would be ‘bye bye’! You don’t need it to be Christmas to know you’re sitting next to a turkey.’
But the winner came in the autumn statement when he got so flustered by the good economic news and heckling, that he likes to dish out so much, he lost the plot. A picture paints a thousand words.
The Penny Red award for most pathetic femenazi
Big call this one, big big call with so many candidates. I have judged it on use of rather sad hashtags, hypocrisy and victim mentality. An honorable mention to Stella Creasy who hits home on hashtags but fails to win thanks to her campaigning on FGM. FGM isn't a feminist issue, it's barbaric but not many seem interested. Like the winner for example.
Caroline Criado-Perez campaigned to have a woman on a banknote, forgetting that there is a woman on every banknote printed in the UK as it is. She received death threats (I condemn them, but really, men on twitter get them every day, block and move on like they do) and because of this anyone, I mean anyone, who disagrees with her is labelled as some kind of woman hating scum. I would have more respect if she wanted to tackle serious issues like FGM.
Independent non commercial blog of the year
Just to clarify this rules out anyone with Google ads or such like running and is judged purely by how much I enjoy them. I saw a tweet once that said "When @Skip_Licker stops being a cunt he writes some beautiful stuff" (can't remember exactly but the gist is the same). His blog Words by me is often very moving and draws on his past as a soldier in the British forces. Another interesting one is by @rhmgroo who on Old School Bulgaria is documenting his journey to emigrate. Full of tips and troubles it is a must for anyone thinking of moving overseas to start a new life. He also has the finest beard on twitter.
But I am a huge fan of the winner and have been for a while, in fact it was his blog that inspired me to start my own. @Battsby is, quite simply, a legend. As at ease with delicate, poetic prose as he is at insightful analysis of social issues with just a hint of grumpy old bastard to be funny and not irritating. A well deserved Pantzy for When I'm King.
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| Putting the world to rights |
Best tweeting MP of the year
Our last award goes to the MP making best use of twitter. William Hague is one of my favourites. It is of course a strictly business account with information about his role in the FCO and the usual "look at blah blah blah" tweets you see the inters send while the boss does something. However his Q & A sessions are fantastic, even being honest on overseas aid. Charlotte Leslie while not a prolific tweeter does so in a casual way, not overly preened by social media bandits. But there was a clear winner.
Michael Fabricant is by quite some margin my favourite tweeting MP. From his brilliant array of "fabatars" to making twanking cool he does what no other MP seems to be able to match, he makes us like him, even people who hate the Tory party have expressed fondness towards the man from Lich Vegas. I can't think of a better way to end the 2013 awards.
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