UK General Election 2017

[Pannonian]

When I linked to an extremely well-respected documentary on the Labour party's history, featuring just about everyone who was anyone (who was still alive), speaking on camera, thus providing both primary sources and unassailable attribution, Idaho dismissed it as:

Wow - argument from authority! Keep them coming.

Then Idaho gets quoted an unattributed post, probably on social media.

No source on that one. A friend of an insider. Could be bs, but is very consistent with the city and insurance industry I have seen so far in my personal and professional life.

I didn't dress it up as personal knowledge. I presented it as plausible sounding hearsay.

Hang on, here's some more. I posted a list of direct quotes, open letters and such from people who used to work with Corbyn, and here's Idaho's response.

This is called argument from authority. Usually a favourite rhetorical fallacy of American gun nuts and anti abortionists.