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As I mentioned, an English political blogger, one Anna Raccoon, had commissioned me to make a shiny new British version of my rusty old Autorantic Virtual Moonbat (AVM). The new robot is now built, and I am heartily sorry to introduce you to the Pet Labour Troll (PLT).

Just as with the AVM, the PLT comes in both a chat module, which lets you talk to the robot, and a smaller sidebar module, which does not.

And just as with the prior incarnation, the PLT lets anyone put either module on any website with just a line of code.

But the Pet Labour Troll also incorporates many improvements over the old AVM, using technology which was not available back in 2004. The PLT is coded in ActionScript 3 and PHP 5, making it twice as fast. And it has three things the AVM never had: its own domain, its own Facebook page, and its own Twitter feed.

The domain, labourtroll.com, has all the instructions for embedding the robot on your own website.

The Facebook page posts rants from the troll at random intervals, and the troll will reply to any posts written on its “wall.” After its first day of operation, the page has garnered 29 fans on Facebook. I expect this number to go higher.

And the Twitter page, at twitter.com/labourtroll, has its own feed of random ranting as well.

I’m sure you will join me in extending our British cousins our sincere sympathy, as they come to know the horror that is the Pet Labour Troll.

Way back in 2004, I invented a humorous Flash application named the Autorantic Virtual Moonbat. It was a chatty hate-filled robot who generated random nonsensical leftist rants, such as “Chimpy McBushitler STOLE the ELECTION by outsourcing transgendered polar bears!!!” Perhaps you saw it. It wasn’t just on my blog, it was on hundreds of others as well, because I let anyone who wanted it embed it. It was very clever and funny, because it aped the style of excitable liberal writers so well.

And then, well, time passed. It still works, but I stopped updating its knowledgebase years ago. The poor dumb thing still thinks George Bush is running the world, and that global warming is a credible theory. Well, okay, so do other liberals, but my larger point is, I was pretty much done with it. And yet I still believe it can have a successful career in politics. That’s why I’m sending it to the United Kingdom.

An English political blogger contacted me, asking if the AVM could be reprogrammed as a crazy British leftist, rather than the American sort, in time for the upcoming U.K. general election in 2010. I answered in the affirmative, and so soon the device will have a new home — and a new name! — and a whole new list of enemies to hate. I will certainly keep you abreast of details as they are made final.