Low friends in high places
Iain Dale, as ever, has hit the nail on the head concerning our some of our bottom-feeding lobby journalists who got hooked on New Labour press releases in the mid-nineties and have spiralled into dependency ever since. Mr Dale also lets the cat out of the bag concerning another Prescott affair – Guido is taking soundings as to whether to publish the name of the MP Prezza’s been bonking.
Let’s add that to Charles Clarke’s recent woes, the police investigation into New Labour’s finances, Patricia Hewitt’s hilarious reception at the Royal College of Nurses following her hilarious statement that the NHS has just had it’s best year ever…
“…everyone in Westminster knows of Prescott's affair with a fellow Minister who has rapidly shot up the greasy pole (if you'll pardon the expression) after receving his patronage, but do we read about that in our newspapers this morning? Do we hell. Do we read about the serial Ugandan exploits of another senior Cabinet Minister, which are known to even the most junior journalist in Westminster? No. There are some serious double standards here. If a Tory or a LibDem is fair game to the media on the grounds of hypocrisy or public interest then surely the same rules should apply to government ministers. The reason they do not is because any journalist who published such a story would immediately find that their sources within New Labour mysteriously evaporated. So they remain complicit in an unspoken conspiracy. It stinks.”
Let’s add that to Charles Clarke’s recent woes, the police investigation into New Labour’s finances, Patricia Hewitt’s hilarious reception at the Royal College of Nurses following her hilarious statement that the NHS has just had it’s best year ever…
