This blog is not a tattle-sheet but something quite significant is brewing in Westminster. It will be in the Sunday papers, and I advise you to read them.
The story so far:
(1) the Prime Minister's political adviser (a civil servant, paid by you and me) is Damian McBride. McBride plays dirty.
(2) the Labour Party is extremely worried about the right-wing nature of most blogs (and of course about the likelihood of its getting elected).
McBride produces some insinuations, some of them sexual, about some senior figures in the Conservative Party and the blogosphere. He knows, and is apparently on record as saying, that they are untrue. No matter.
MacBride emails the tittle tattle to a Labour Party blog and to several other people. Apparently a government minister, Tom Watson, is involved. These emails suggest publication details in a new blog Red Rag, which the government denied having been set up but which has been proven to have been established.
Lastly, someone in the Labour Party has leaked all this to the Sunday Newspapers.
Looks like fun.
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