After comparing William Hague to a foetus you'd have thought Labour might have learnt the lesson about mean-spirited personal attacks on Conservative politicians...
After Alastair Campbell et al had compared Michael Howard to Shylock you'd have thought Labour might have learnt the lesson about mean-spirited personal attacks on Conservative politicians...
After Sion Simon's YouTube nasty against David Cameron you'd have thought that Labour might have learnt the lesson about mean-spirited personal attacks on Conservative politicians...
Praguetory has the story on Labour still not learning that down'n'nasty only reflects badly on them >>>
Sorry, I missed Trevor Phillips comment on this.........
Posted by: TomTom | December 08, 2006 at 22:26
bah, some minor left-wing Labour councillor doing this is hardly worth noting.
Not sure what the point of it was really
Posted by: bee | December 08, 2006 at 22:27
Next news, they'll have DC singing Mammeee!!! Pathetic.
Posted by: Annabel Herriott | December 08, 2006 at 22:32
I note that one of the "authors", a Labour councilor chairs a Mental Health Trust. That rather says it all.
Posted by: Peter Golds | December 08, 2006 at 22:41
bee, It'll be in the Daily Mail on Monday now. Almost every journalist reads this blog, whilst they don't read obscure left wing councillor blogs!
Posted by: Chris | December 08, 2006 at 22:59
"Labour still not learning that down'n'nasty only reflects badly on them"
Agreed.
Posted by: Scotty | December 08, 2006 at 23:03
Much fuss was made when a Conservative councillor forwarded a supposedly 40 year old racist Canadian email. What will happen about this I wonder? Nothing?
Posted by: Chris Palmer | December 08, 2006 at 23:20
Absolute disgrace. Bob Piper should be suspended by the Labour Party immediately, and investigated by the Standards Board. Can you IMAGINE the outcry had a Conservative said this? It is double standards.
His attempted defence, like Sion Simon's, of satire, is completely pointless because satire contains an element of humour. This is just an accusation of racism. Horrendous.
Posted by: Ben Redsell | December 08, 2006 at 23:54
I suspect Mr Piper is about to become famous. Enjoy it Bob.
Wonder what their next attack will be on DC. Goat molesting maybe!!
Posted by: Andrew Woodman | December 09, 2006 at 00:34
It is not big and not clever is it. I can't help but feel that if Labour people with apparently no actual sense of humour keep on doing this it will be good for Cameron - as it makes them look like a bunch of dimwits with more time on their hands than talent. Perhaps compulsory viewing of past Spitting Image programmes for the mal-humoured dullards may be a suitable education in satire.
Posted by: Cheltenham Girlie | December 09, 2006 at 01:11
Cheltenham Girlie. I think we are better if they don't refine their sense of satire, as this sort of stuff is goldust!
The more these sorts of things are posted, even by the most irrelevant Labour Councillors they are still connected to the Party, and mud sticks. The desperation within this is somewhat startling.
Posted by: Bluey-Green | December 09, 2006 at 10:14
I'm not really sure what point Piper and Ministry of Truth are trying to take.
The problem is, I think, that most left wingers just don't do humour, and when they try, they just look a bit silly.
Posted by: Sean Fear | December 09, 2006 at 12:03
In fact, Bob Piper seems to be a councillor who is very much in the mould of the unlamented Alan Amos of Tower Hamlets.
Posted by: Sean Fear | December 09, 2006 at 12:28
They really are disgusting aren't they. Truly vile people. The only mystery is, how come the Labour collective have managed to bask for so long in their nauseating glow of self-righteous moral superiority? When they contain so many people like this Piper creature?
Posted by: Graeme Archer | December 09, 2006 at 14:07
Totally cretinous. Almost as cretinous as the "Tosser Test"
Interesting to hear the pharasaical, self-righteous bleats from the Cameron fan club. In my day you simply ignored this sort of nonsense and got on with the job in hand.
Touchy little fellows aren't they?
Posted by: Tory Loyalist | December 10, 2006 at 10:33
This was puerile. But for heaven's sake let's not make ourselves look ridiculous by working ourselves up into a pompous lather.
I'm disappointed that one MP even invoked the Standards Board. Tories should be calling for the abolition of that benighted organisation - feed feeding its beaurocracy with non-issues
Posted by: martin wright | December 11, 2006 at 00:33
In response to Peter Golds' comment:
"I note that one of the "authors", a Labour councilor chairs a Mental Health Trust. That rather says it all."
What does it say?
You're complaining about someone 'blacking up' David Cameron and then using Mental Health as a stick to beat the miscreant with. Nice line in double standards there. Well done.
Posted by: Lloyd Marlow | January 11, 2007 at 01:18