Littlejohn Tom Watson Attack Busted

Despite this week’s evidence showing that not only had Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson done nothing wrong, but also that the Police were already investigating the late Leon Brittan before they received Watson’s letter bringing their attention to further allegations against him, the right-leaning part of the press is keeping up its attack on Watson, digging itself in deeper and therefore looking yet more foolish.

Credibility, Guv? Nah, you put traps down for that, innit?!?

And nowhere is this foolishness more evident than in the far-flung North London enclave that is Vero Beach, Florida, from where the Daily Mail’s talentless and unfunny churnalist Richard Littlejohn has fired off yet another reason why his legendarily foul mouthed editor is paying out rather more money than his not-really-star-pundit is worth. “Stop this insane VIP abuse inquiry before it costs us £120million (plus VAT)! Nothing credible has been unearthed - so why on earth is it continuing” he pleads.

Do go on: “More than a month has passed since it was revealed that detectives had failed to find a shred of evidence to suggest that there was a VIP paedophile and murder ring operating in the Seventies and Eighties … These lurid allegations have been at the centre of an outrageous attempt by Nonce Finder General Tom Watson to smear leading Conservatives, notably Leon Brittan, as child molesters and worse”.

Dicky Windbag even manages to pass adverse comment on nominally Labour MP Simon Danczuk, which might start the alarm bells ringing in north-east Manchester. But this attack can be dealt with directly: what the Police may or may not have found, they are not telling, because their investigation continues, and as a result they are not about to tell the likes of Littlejohn. And Watson is still not “smearing” anyone.

Even when the signs suggest that Watson may not be as wrong as so many obedient pundits tried to suggest, Littlejohn would not take the hint. “Surprisingly, criticism of Labour’s Deputy Leader has been strangely muted at Westminster this week, save for the redoubtable Nicholas Soames and London’s mayor Boris Johnson”, he observed.

“You might have expected at least some mention of Watson’s deranged witch-hunt against Brittan to surface during Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions … But no. Nothing, zilch … Has the order to keep stumm gone out to Conservative MPs. And if so, why? At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist myself, could it be because Home Secretary Theresa May still has some questions of her own to answer?” He’s guessing.

What has clearly passed Richard Littlejohn by - probably by going way over his head - is that last weekend’s wave of abuse and bile has failed to budge Tom Watson, it is becoming clear that there is more to come, and as a result, many on the Government benches are, shall we say, re-evaluating their position. Sadly for Littlejohn, he is too wilful and clueless to detect this change in the wind direction.

Still, when he’s generating so much hot air of his own, that’s all too understandable.