McBride the Party Pooper...

What impeccable timing!

 

Just when the comrades were about to mumble through ‘The Red Flag’, Damian McBeast dumps a whole load of ordure right  over the party.

 

His confessions, widely trailed to coincide with the Labour Party conference, reveal the rottenness of the Blair/Brown regime.

 

His main task (at the tax-payers’ expense) was to ‘brief’ against anyone who might be a threat to the Dear Leader; that is, to spread rumours, lies, false accusations, and personal scandal with the main objective of destroying the careers of whomsoever he chose.

 

He would send out toxic e-mails to his toadying hacks containing slurs and innuendos against leading Tories. He targeted Cameron and his wife, George Osborne’s wife, Nadine Norris and others. Perhaps the story about William Hague spending a night in a hotel room with another man came from this source; the implication was clear enough.

 

But the most bizarre aspect was that most of his venom appears to have been directed against leading members of the Labour Party. He pretty well did for John Reid by spreading stories about drunken escapades many years previously. He tried hard to stitch up Charles Clark when he was Home Secretary. The ‘News of the World’ did a splash about a junior Minister and a female civil servant, planted by McBeast.

 

It comes as no surprise to learn that one of his cronies was Tom Watson, Miliband’s minder until he flounced out over the UNITE election rigging rumpus, which makes it difficult to accept that Ed didn’t know what was going on.

 

‘All water under the bridge’, is the Labour’s response. Only it isn’t. It is common knowledge how Ed shafted his own brother to get the top job; he was part of the inner circle when the briefing scandal was at its worst; he has just appointed a close buddy of McBeast as his assistant press secretary.

 

The relationship between Ed and Balls is beginning to look like a repeat of the Blair and Brown show. ‘Wallace and Grommet’ is being heard to describe the pair.

 

And yet….we would be fooling ourselves if we imagined that the Tories are innocent of this sort  of malarkey. UKIP is increasingly the target of Tory ‘briefings’. Maggie had Sir Bernard Ingham as her press secretary, a no-nonsense Yorkshireman of integrity. Dave appointed a Red Top hack, that diamond geezer from Essex, Andy Coulson.

 

 

Stand by for more ‘revelations’ about Nigel Farage and UKIP MEPs.