The Daily Mail
appears to have – perhaps temporarily – taken its pursuit of Labour MPs Harriet
Harman and Jack Dromey off the front page, following the apology it and the
Murdoch Sun extracted from Patricia Hewitt last week. But those howling for the
husband-and-wife team’s blood is still in hot pursuit, at the Mail and elsewhere, especially those who
have axes to grind.
Who're you f***ing telling to f*** off, c***?!?
Leo
McKinstry, for one: he once worked for Harriet Harman before crossing his
own personal floor and ending up as a purveyor of what nice people call
polemics, but most categorise as rants. And these are not just rants, but
foam-flecked, swivel-eyed, unhinged right-wing rants. You want someone to tell
you about reds under everyone’s bed and how the country has gone to the dogs,
he’s your man.
McKinstry has been given a platform by the Mail to keep the campaign against “The Left” rumbling away in the background:
“The Left's web of shame: It's not just
Harman, Dromey and Hewitt. As we reveal, many other members of Britain's ruling
liberal elite held senior posts at the NCCL when it was closely linked to
paedophiles” thunders the headline dishonestly.
Yes, all the people he names had something to do with the
National Council for Civil Liberties. The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE)
affiliated to the NCCL. Therefore, in McKinstry’s strange world, they all done
it. It’s no better over at the bear pit that is Telegraph blogs, either, where embittered ex-Labour member Dan
Hodges says
Hewitt’s apology has done for Harman.
“Just what do Harriet
Harman and Jack Dromey think they’re doing?” he howls. I mean, don’t they
realise that they should never have allowed the all-knowledgeable D Hodges (no
relation) to leave the Party? Dan’s new pal, the loathsome Toby Young, is on
the other hand in it just
to score points for the Tories, asserting “Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey will have to resign”.
Why so? Ah, but they knew someone who might have talked to
someone else, and besides, Paul Dacre has decided they’re in the wrong, he pays
well, and Tobes’n’Dan don’t want to cross him because of the effect it might
have on their bank balances. Meanwhile at the HuffPost, Mehdi Hasan has
checked the case over and asked “What
is Harriet Harman supposed to apologise for?”
To which the answer appears to be “Because Dacre has personally decreed that she will”, and that
Melanie “not just Barking but halfway to
Upminster” Phillips agrees. As Hasan notes, while at the NCCL, Ms Harman “campaigned on behalf of battered wives and
disabled children, in defence of jury trials, freedom of information and
prisoner's rights and in favour of laws to combat racial and sexual
discrimination”.
Apologise for that? Hello, Paul Dacre! You can f*** right off with that one.
2 comments:
It's probably been said before but it strikes me that this attempt to whip up a frenzy about possible guilt by association on the part of the Labour politicians who were in the NCCL when PIE was afiliated is a preemptive strike to dilute the publicity if Tory politicians are ever arrested for their sexual activities in the 1980s. The rumour mill is churning with possible names and there are reports that arrests are imminentso it does seem beyond coincidental that the Mail should pick this time to go for Harriet Harman, Jack Dromey and Patricia Hewitt.
I think it's now starting to look like the Mail's decision to dedicate so much ink and energy to smearing Harman over her libertarian past, was actually connected to an arrest (five days before the Mail started pushing the Harman smear) over a much more recent activity by a Tory figure.
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