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Could It Get Any Worse?

Saturday, 11th April 2009

The tawdry tale of Damian McBride's "juvenile and inappropriate" emails about Conservative politicians is pretty grim as it is. But it is just possible to imagine how the situation might be worse. What if someone even closer to McBride were on the circulation list, for example? Someone like Charlie Whelan, for example. That would be truly dreadful. And what if the emails were circulated even further, dragging in others, like Whelan, with close links  to the unions who will fund Labour's next election campaign. Now that is so awful it is almost beyond imagination.

Gordon Brown's loyalty has always been his best and worst quality. There are many within the Labour Party who feel McBride should have been shown the door long before his latest indiscretion. I would not wish anyone out of a job in the present economic circumstances, but you'd have thought he could have been found a nice sinecure somewhere to reward him for his years of service.

But if this sordid little plot went any further then the job of no one involved is safe. And that ultimately includes Gordon Brown's.

 


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Fergus Pickering

April 11th, 2009 8:20pm Report this comment

Could it get any worse? Yes it could. Yes it will. Much worse.
Don't you just love it?

NotSo...

April 11th, 2009 8:23pm Report this comment

How could it get worse ? Gordon Brown wins the next election - then it gets worse.

Obnoxio The Clown

April 11th, 2009 8:32pm Report this comment

Could It Get Any Worse?

I certainly hope so. I'm long on Nokia.

Michael Booth

April 11th, 2009 8:38pm Report this comment

Yes Martin, I fear there is much worse to come...

Plato

April 11th, 2009 8:49pm Report this comment

Martin, I published this on my blog at 8am today. Do have a look.

Silent Hunter

April 11th, 2009 9:29pm Report this comment

Hmmm?

Sordid.......Labour........Corruption.........Draper.

This could be Labours new General Election slogan LOL.

What a laughing stock the Labour Party have become.

Perhaps we should organise a national "Laugh At Labour" day - where we take the day off work to take the piss out of the Corrupt Labour Party on the interwebby thingy. :o)

That would make it slightly more difficult for the armed wing of the Labour Party (the Met) to beat us all up for not working hard to keep all those Labour politicians (and their family members) in the style they have grown accustomed to.

Corrupt Bastards all!

unseen

April 11th, 2009 10:33pm Report this comment

Charlie Whelan is indeed copied in to the emails, and it appears that Andrew Dodgshon, who works for Whelan, was lined up to edit the new site.

RW

April 11th, 2009 10:38pm Report this comment

"What if someone even closer to McBride were on the circulation list, for example? Someone like Charlie Whelan, for example." He was.

"That would be truly dreadful". It is.

"Now that is ...almost beyond imagination." Only for those of us blinded by mistaken loyalty to the Socialist cause.

"Gordon Brown's loyalty " is and has always been to his own political advancement, and to the retention of power, once achieved. Nothing else. Anything else is flatulence.

"You'd have thought [McBride] could have been found a nice sinecure somewhere." No. *You*, Martin, would have thought that.

"If this sordid little plot went any further then the job of no one involved is safe. And that ultimately includes Gordon Brown's."

Which is more important, Martin, the safety of Gordon Brown's job or the proper governance of this country? Discuss.

David

April 11th, 2009 10:39pm Report this comment

Well, well-looks like Whelan was indeed involved.

From your perspective, Martin, what makes it worse is that any claim now made about the Tories by Labour can be plausibly (if not fairly) dismissed as coming from the same place as these emails. Does serious damage to the election machine.

BrianSJ

April 11th, 2009 10:51pm Report this comment

Things can only get better.

Roberto

April 11th, 2009 11:06pm Report this comment

This is so juicy, so overflowing with pure filth and sleaze that it puts the last days of the last Tory goverment in the light of being angelic. Looking forward to seeing number 10 crash burn and die

Poppy Koch

April 12th, 2009 9:09am Report this comment

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. :(

Jeepers I thought I was already sapped.

I know what they're doing - they're taking us that stage further so we lose the will to live and nobody has the strength of purpose to petition for a vote of no confidence.

Archie

April 12th, 2009 12:45pm Report this comment

And the so-called opposition is doing what about this, exactly.......?

Nick

April 14th, 2009 4:50pm Report this comment

FOI request for his emails anyone?

DPA request if you think you are on them.

Herbert Thornton

April 15th, 2009 12:52am Report this comment

I'm entirely pessimistic. The mainstream political parties offer nothing but Bad Government. The only perceptible difference among them is that Labour are somewhat sleazier than the others. If Britain wants Good Government it must turn to either UKIP or the BNP - though, like the upright Presbyterian Scotswoman who believed that only she and the Minister stood a chance of going to heaven but wasn't sure about the Minister - I'm not so sure about UKIP.

JohnAnt

April 16th, 2009 2:46am Report this comment

Martin, it's occurred to me that you may know a great deal about all this, so possibly you're sending us coded messages?! Is that a hint about a sinecure that will be found for McBride, I wonder. And the other union contact apart from Whelan...Hm.
As far as the unions are concerned - it appears following a recent poll that most union members not only do not support but actually oppose Brown and the Labour Party. It'll be an interesting conference season this year.

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