The British New Labour spin doctors worked an a smear campaign against the conservatives right out of Downing Street No.10:
In his most lurid slur, McBride suggests that “secret tapes” exist containing evidence that Osborne had sex with the prostitute. McBride makes obscene allegations about the use of a sex aid and also claims that drugs were taken. The shadow chancellor has always denied having any physical relationship with Rowe or taking any drugs with her.
Finally, McBride suggests Red Rag concoct a tale about Nadine Dorries, a Tory back-bench MP, having a one-night stand with a married colleague during a party away day. McBride suggests Red Rag hint that a sex aid was accidentally left in a hotel bedroom.
Maybe not so unusual anywhere but other smear planers, Rove comes to mind, do not use their official government email addresses for such smear and take care not to get their emails published by a (right.-wing) blogger.
Craig Murray opines:
These disgusting New Labour spin doctors are a cancer attached to the heart of the British government. They pose an infinitely more fundamental threat to British society and values than terrorism does. We can get through the odd bomb attack. We cannot get through the radical corruption of the democratic system.
Right on. The Brits are cursed with Blair's and Brown's New Labour.
But the real questions is: Are the realistic alternatives any better?