Smeargate: nothing to see here
Political opponents say nasty things about each other non-shock!
Other than to note that this was always going to happen if you give revolting specimens like Damian McBride and Derek Draper even a sniff of power, there’s not much else to say.
It has to be said though, watching a peddler of smears about people’s mental health with an unhealthy schoolboy prurient fixation with homosexuality such as Guido Fawkes take his ‘outrage’ at these emails on to the airwaves made the Easter chocolate rise in the gorge of even this hardened cynic.
If you really want more…
Tim Ireland: ‘Smeargate’ and paedo-smears
Tim Ireland: I’m sorry, but Paul Staines *is* homophobic
Flying Rodent: UK Politics – “Has It Really Come To This?” Edition
Hopi Sen: The Hypoocrisy… it Burns…
Francis Sedgemore: Why we hate politics (part 99)
Iain Dale: Please let me be part of this story. Go on, please. PLEEEEEEEEASE! Parts 1 – 100
Update: Iain Dale again…
This whole episode was manufactured by bored journalists wh had nothing better to write and love a bit of faux outrage.
Just a shame he’s saying it in defence of Shadow Chancellor George Osborne’s right to make jokes about Gordon Brown mental health in public. Stolen private emails about the mental health of Osborne’s wife, though? That’s a scandal.
Posted on April 12th, 2009 at 9:04am under Blog, bloggers and blogging, Bread and circuses, New Labour, Sleaze
Is he having some trouble composing himself today?
Agreed.
This is just one set of undesirables from within the political class whinging about another set of undesirables antics from within the same political class. Internecine gang warfare with handbags is just soooooo relevant to peoples everyday lives is it not?
Particularly when it involves a middle aged wannabe somebody who failed at University because he was too busy trying to forge an alliance between one set of right wing nutters and another and who still has not yet progressed, in over twenty years, beyond schoolyard politics.
A more relevant and breaking story can be found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7996394.stm
where 100 citizens have been arrested in pre-dawn raids by police in an inner city area of Nottingham for the dastardly crime of planning a protest at a power station.
Why not just cut to the chase and send a member of the Met’s finest round to the home anyone suspected of a thought crime to move them along with a jolly good baton thrashing?
I’m expecting Tom Cruise to come flying through my home office window any second.
And this is why I’m completely turned off by politics.
Trouble is, there’s probably millions like me.