Is Team Cameron behind the Tory ’sleaze’ exposes?
June 9, 2008
I won’t go into the details of all the Tory expenses controversy suddenly gripping the political classes, Guido Fawkes does a good enough job over on his Order Order site so if you need an update, just scroll through the entire weeks worth of news, it’s quite a good read.
What I have found interesting are the theories over who is behind it. As Recess Monkey sums up, Labour seem too disorganised at the moment to come out with such a damaging and sustained attack on the Tories, leaving us guessing at who it could be. The current theory is that it could well be Team Cameron behind the exposes, ‘clearing out dead wood’, as Recess Monkey puts it.
1) I thought it would be therapeutic to have a blog to vent my frustrations on, rather than my friends/girlfriend/cat. This way I can post something and then forget about it (well that’s the theory).
2) There is something of a dearth of lefty/Labour blogs, so I thought maybe it would at least even up the balance against the might of the Mr’sFawkes and Dale.
3) I saw Nick Robinson the other day at Leeds train station! I realised no-one else would share my excitement and I thought to myself ‘If I had a blog I could post all about it’. So gather round and I shall tell ye a tale…
I saw Nick Robinson. He walked past me. Nothing much else to say really, his face was quite red and he looked annoyed/determined/constipated depending on how you look at it. I did an all too obvious double take and briefly contemplated telling him how much I enjoyed his blog, but then thought that, even though political commentators probably don’t get many fans on the streets, he looked too angry for me to pester him and I’d inevitably come across like an idiot. So I let him pass me by, like strangers in the night, except it was 7:30 in the morning, in Leeds.
