LOL.

I think the point they were trying to make is that McBride sits next to Tom. Perhaps he popped out for a piss when the photo was taken, I have no idea. But thats his desk. The papers will run this pic regardless, the damage is done.

This is serious Bob. McBride has gone (and may find himself being contacted by m'learned friends when the contents of the mails are revealed tomorrow.
But who else in the Downing Street bunker has had their podgy fingers in this? And who in the Labour Party wants this kind of lousy, stinking politics?
John

Be honest Bob, the photo doesn't flatter Mr Byrne!

I suppose my point was, the job titles are all a bit opaque and it would be easy to say that "Mr Brown knew nothing of this".

People might believe that, but this photo demands that they believe Brown didn't know what was happening a couple of desks away. People know from their own workplaces that you can't have secrets in an open plan office. This photo makes plausible deniability more difficult.

To create the distance, resignations would be required, whereas I don't think they were guaranteed this morning.

The papers will run this pic? A fiver on it?

John, sorry, mate, but this ain't bloody serious. When you're in the Billiard Hall this week, ask them who Damien McBride is. I'd love to hear their answers. Also, as I understand it, the only one threatening to sue is Dotty Nadine Dorries, who is desperate to get her name in the papers. I've got £20 says she doesn't sue, and that's because she wouldn't get a penny for what was leaked from private e-mails.

However, I agree with you on the subject of this sort of garbage politics. In over 25 years of elections in our Ward, we've never even mentioned our opponents exist in elections, never mind running this sort of crap.

Morus, believe me... he looks worse in the flesh.

Oh ffs
Sunday Telegraph - Iain Dale on blogging
Mail on Sunday - Iain Dale on Brown & Nixon

Yes it is bloody serious, look at the tripe we have to put up with ?

Out of interest Bob, and because I haven't seen any sign of it in your posts, do you approve of the McBride tactics? Putting around stories that Mrs Osborne was emotionally damaged? And if you don't approve, do you think that this would never be sanctioned by the Labour party? Curious is all.

Bob, I meant "serious" in the sense of something pretty rotten going on at a serious level in the Party I'm a member of, as opposed to the spin of "the kids have been larking about with a few email japes between mates", which I thought your post kinda went along with.

John, I don't know where you perceive the approval. Personally, I have no time at all for negative campaigning, and as I say, we don't even acknowledge they exist, let alone give them publicity.

Tim J, perhaps you can't read. If you can... just scroll up a little. Damien McBride means nothing to me. I've never heard of him before this weekend, and if the Party leadership want to roll around in the gutter with this sort of crap they needn't look to me to defend them. Good riddance, say I.

Is he having some trouble composing himself today?

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No platform here for fascists.

The amusing part of this story for me is that I commented about it on CiF and my comment was deleted by the moderators. All I did was mention the list of iffy sites that are also hosted on LabourList's server and the Graun decided that I should spend some time in the naughty corner.

Talking of shared servers, yours contains a site that is flagged as "may be hosting one or more web sites with explicit content". Don't worry though, it's just some bad parsing by the domain checker. I'm sure the good people of Penistone must be familiar with the problems of penistoneshow.org.uk. It's well known that Scunthorpe too suffers inadvertent censorship with less-than-perfect filtering algorithms :)

John, that reminds me of a friend of mine who refused to take his kids to see 'Pursuit of Happiness' because he thought it was pursuit of a penis.