The smears that backfired

Gawain

This is worse than I thought for ZanuLabour. If any of these pathetic fabrications have been employed in other ways the victims are likely to have a strong libel case. In addition, if they are just a smoke screen and they have some more accurate revelations in store for release at election time, who is going to believe them ? Every Tory now has a pat response to their abuse or ad hominem tactics, just stop smearing and debate seriously !

Ted Wooller

I fear for WWW.order-order.com.
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Has Guido been for a walk in the woods?

RW

The Most Reverend & Right Honourable Dr. John Sentamu is a man of great honesty, probity and forthrightness. But you, Fraser, are a hard act to follow. I am sure +York will do his best. Does you, do you think, know much about spreadsheets?

Labour must go for the sake of democracy

Ha! The fourth one is the most believeable.

Susan Hill

This is beyond childish. It is positively pre-natal. But if those false rumours are the best that McBride/NuLab could come up with then more than anything else they look exttremely silly and have played right into the Tories' hands. And even if the first two rumours were true, what conceivable bearing did McB think they might have on how the Tories might perform in Government ?
If these fabrications are the best he can come up with I`m not too worried about his being the next political best-selling novelist.

Peter Buss

Fraser - according to the Guardian Site, the Observer will be claiming tomorow that Samantha Cameron was a target fo this descipable smear campaign. Are you able to shed any light please on the truth of the Observer claim ? If it is true then surely this will make the story nuclear as it will mean that (according to the time frame) whilst a mother was grieving over the loss of a dear son, those close to Gordon Brown were devising plans as to how they might smear her.

Steve the techie

These smears remind me of the behaviour of Primary School children in playground rows. The loser will fall back on insults, "You're smelly, you've got the scabs, you wet the bed, your mother is on the game" etc, etc. Thankfully a sign of maturity is to stop such nonsense and stick to the facts.

Obviously that lesson has been lost on some of New Labour's advisors.

MartSharm

It simply shows how vacuous the heart of this "Government" really is.

They cannot defend themselves on ideas, personality or policy.

They have nothing left in the tank but to groundlessly defame the good names of their opponents, like a washed-up footballer bereft of skill, whose only remaining tactic is to commit a professional foul on whoever happens to cross his path.

Shameless, and sinful. Britain will not stand for it.

Tiberius

Fraser, you may be away from the white heat at present but, come on, you must know whether this could bring the Government down - pray do tell.

Michael Booth

Is this really going on?
Ye Gods...

Morus

And are you giving his Easter Sermon at the Minster by way of return.

THAT I would love to see...

AndyLeeds

Hope McScum gets sued. He deserves to be. And this piece of shit was a Civil Servant. God's death what have we come to in this country.

George Laird

Dear All

We all know that putting the boot in is okay for anyone in the political arena who is standing for public office.

It is part and parcel for sticking your head above the parapit.

I do however find it petty, mean spirited and disgusting that New Labour should seek to target David Cameron's wife, Samantha given the recent tragic event of losing her son.

If this is the mentality of the senior advisors of Brown's cabal then the sooner this country goes to the polls the better.

Mrs Cameron and her family are totally off limits.

If Brown and co need a reason why they are unfit to be in charge of this country, here it is.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

Alan Boutoni

They must be better than that or they wouldn't have bothered screeching them down so loudly or keeping them so secret - remember the howls about Scallywag, Portillo & the Dirty Dozen all got screamed out but all turned out to be true - if there no fire to this smoke why is Fawkes et al keeping it so secret? I've no time for Brown & his gang but people like Cameron, Osborne etc are capable of anything

Paul Williams

I'm starting to think Global Warming, Meteor Strike, World Plague or Terrorist attack has got nothing on this Sad Sad grasping excuse for a Labour Government. A government that has been the envy of the world in past times. I'm sorry to say that the people will not stand for any more. Brown and his Ministers (Cronies) should be tried for crimes to the people of the UK.

Olaf Rye

George, I ordinarily do not agree with your ideas and interpretations, but on this occasion, you have put the matter as accurately and succinctly as can possibly be achieved. I have nothing to add to your statement--well done indeed !

hadrian

When they take to smearing not the actual politicians but their long-suffering spouses it really does strike one it's all up for them!
As for Frances Osborne's alleged discomfort at such parties- who could blame her? The sheer tedium must be decimating for people with far better ways to employ their time!!

hadrian

One trusts, Fraser, that whereas the Archbish of York is standing in for you, you will not be reciprocating by standing in for him. I really cannot visualise you- a Scottish Presbyterian- donned up in all that silly Anglican gear! Fire and brimstone suit you far better, dear boy!

Incidentally, on the rumours of Frances Osborne's 'fragility', one wonders what mileage they imagined getting out of that? Did they see her crashing into the Commons with a machine gun and spraying her husband's political foes with bullets, or even just having hysterics at hubby's long hours in the chamber?
Man, Labour must be desperate!

pithy

Hmmmm - it strikes me that the fabled "Green Shoots of Recovery" are now revealed as a growing layer of political slime on the dying boughs of democracy.