A dull bank holiday Monday on BBC Parliament channel yesterday. Previous ones have seen re-run screenings of vintage General Election nights for us all to reminisce/rue over. To compensate here is an already much linked-to clip of a more twentyfirst century squabble from our political duopoloy: Tory fave blogger Guido Fawkes head-to-head with Derek Draper head honcho of the Labourlist site on BBC2’s “Daily Politics” just a few short weeks ago.
You will have heard of the stuff that’s exploded since. All of it is undignified and hardly befiting any sort of “moral compass” in politics. Now that the person responsible for launching the hypothetical email discussion of a train of events that never came to pass in the end has gone let’s all move on and make sure it doesn’t happen again. There really is no need for this type of gutter politics. The Tories are obviously intent on milking this for all they can – banging on about it again today. Surely Labour could have easily have got them on (lack of) policy.
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April 14, 2009 at 4:38 pm
thebozboz
“Now that the person responsible for launching the hypothetical email discussion of a train of events that never came to pass in the end has gone let’s all move on and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Sorry Rupa but the other party to this complete fiasco is still the editor of one of the largest Labour supporting websites – paid for out of the pockets of Unison members.
He’s still hanging over the Labour blogosphere like a dark cloud and until he falls on his sword the Tories will be able to play havoc.
Once Draper goes we can sort out this mess.
P.S. Love your blog!
April 14, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Paul Burgin
I agree, unless Draper pulls out of frontline, or even backroom Labour politics, this will hang over like a nasty stink! Prescott wants Draper out and in the blogosphere there is a chorus of ‘Go now!’ from Labourhome, Kerron wants him out, Chris Paul wants him out, Andrew Regan (founder of Bloggers4Labour) wants him out, I want him out, some on Labour List clearly feel very uncomfortable being professionally near him now, and a no of us won’t shut up until he is out!
April 15, 2009 at 1:09 am
john zims
‘a train of events that never came to pass in the end has gone let’s all move on’
Yup,let just brush it under the carpet and pretend it didn’t happen.
Let’s just ignore the fact that this guy was at the centre of Downing Street ,hand picked by Brown ,also lets ignore the many senior Labour MP’s that have come forward describing how these vile tactics were used against them ,also lets ignore the description of Downing Street as a ‘vipers nest’, it’s just so inconvenient when the truth surfaces from time to time.
But I can imagine the outcry from lefites like yourself if it was Brown or Vaz’s familes that were being smeared,would they also be described as ‘banging’ on to use your infantile vocabulary?
Whilst Labour has reduced our electoral system to that of a banana republic we don’t need the politics of ZANU-PF to go with it.
Ever wondered why candiadtes are given unwinnable seats to contest?
April 15, 2009 at 9:49 am
rachelbirdrachel
Dear Ms Huq,
I work with a film company and we’ve just found some extremely ironic footage of Jack Straw on the cutting room floor. It’s currently being edited but I think it would be perfect for your readers. Is there an email address that I can use to send it to you?
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Rachel
rachel.bird@live.com
April 17, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Robert
It’s been the best few weeks, and yesterday watching Brown say sorry, well I could have cried except I was to busy laughing. I will never say sorry never never, well ok SORRY.