Mark Wallace on left wing hypocrisy
Mark Wallace has an excellent post on Conservative Home at
http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2014/11/remember-the-left-is-more-compassionate-than-you-will-ever-be.html
in which he gives two recent examples of a left-wing journalist and a Labour PPC respectively using tactics which would have half the left demanding the resignation of any Tory MP or PPC who used them.
It is a problem for people in all parts of the political spectrum, but the left are particularly prone to it, to be so convinced of your own rightness that any nasty trick you play on your opponents can be justified.
For example, one he quotes a tweet from a Guardian journalist called Jack Monroe who had made a poisonous attack on David Cameron concerning what DC had said about his dead son.
It will not be a surprise to any reader of this blog to learn that I am not Gordon Brown's biggest fan. But there is one type of nasty comment which I would never make about Gordo, would never excuse or justify anyone else making about him, and don't recall any Conservative ever making.
In a cruel irony, both Gordon Brown and David Cameron lost their firstborn sons. That is something I quite literally would not wish on my worst enemy. Such a personal tragedy is far too horrible to be incorporated into a political attack of any kind, and shame on anyone, on either side, who would do such a thing.
http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2014/11/remember-the-left-is-more-compassionate-than-you-will-ever-be.html
in which he gives two recent examples of a left-wing journalist and a Labour PPC respectively using tactics which would have half the left demanding the resignation of any Tory MP or PPC who used them.
It is a problem for people in all parts of the political spectrum, but the left are particularly prone to it, to be so convinced of your own rightness that any nasty trick you play on your opponents can be justified.
For example, one he quotes a tweet from a Guardian journalist called Jack Monroe who had made a poisonous attack on David Cameron concerning what DC had said about his dead son.
It will not be a surprise to any reader of this blog to learn that I am not Gordon Brown's biggest fan. But there is one type of nasty comment which I would never make about Gordo, would never excuse or justify anyone else making about him, and don't recall any Conservative ever making.
In a cruel irony, both Gordon Brown and David Cameron lost their firstborn sons. That is something I quite literally would not wish on my worst enemy. Such a personal tragedy is far too horrible to be incorporated into a political attack of any kind, and shame on anyone, on either side, who would do such a thing.
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