Trouble in the Labour Party over expenses

The more that emerges about Brown’s YouTube calamity on expenses, the more stupid it seems.  The immediate theory was that Brown released it to wrongfoot David Cameron and Nick Clegg.  I’d go along with that.  But it turns out that his own party didn’t know anything about it either.  This in today’s Guardian.

Downing Street’s handling of the matter was also strongly criticised by Labour MPs at a lengthy meeting of the parliamentary Labour party last night. During what was described as a ‘fractious’ meeting, MPs criticised Brown for making his announcement on a YouTube broadcast last Tuesday without any reference to them. Some MPs had raised the matter at their last meeting the day before Brown’s broadcast…

…Labour MPs made their unease clear at last night’s meeting of the parliamentary Labour party where Nick Brown, the chief whip, faced hostile questions.