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And now David Cameron takes his turn to do a big steaming crap on the reputation of British politics:

David Cameron stepped up preparations for a bruising battle with Gordon Brown yesterday by hiring a controversial former News of the World editor as the Conservatives’ new communications supremo.

Andy Coulson, who quit the Sunday tabloid in January after his royal editor was jailed for hacking into the voicemail of an aide to Prince William, will be the Tories’ new director of communications.

It’s only a few weeks since Michael Howard was cheered to the rafters for telling Alastair Campbell to his face just what damage the hatchet-faced war criminal had done to British politics.

Now, the Tories get their own Campbell manqué – a man destined for that new circle of Hell they’re building, the current nine deemed unable to mete out a severe enough punishment to such scum – and they’re all clapping like seals. Who knew their desperation ran so deep?

The next person to say to me that blogs are despoiling politics is liable to get his still-beating heart shown to him while he dies.