A lame one liner from Brown in the debate was the first sign that Labour’s campaign troglodytes have, quite simply – and completely – lost the plot. I’ve seen this image on a couple of blogs now this evening. I dismissed it, though, thinking it must be just another Toryish blogger agitprop spoof. Not so. A little trip to Labour.org reveals that, yes, believe it or not (and I still can’t believe it), it’s for real.
Brown said during the EU bit of the debate: “They’ll turn Great Britain into Little Britain”. Just another pathetic, throwaway Brownist soundbite and, as always, instantly forgettable. You would think.
But no. Know this: it wasn’t just a prepared line for Brown to chuck in. It’s part of what looks like a new, concerted campaign tactic, with the diabolically unethical picture below as its visual support:
This was published hours before the debate. Given the hideousness of the image, not least because of Cameron’s experience as a father caring for a severely disabled son (now sadly deceased), but also its exploitation generally of disability for cynical political purposes, it’s just incomprehensibly sick – and the Labour party must be held to account for it. Severely.
You have to ask, what kind of thought processes are at work in the creation of a thing as brutally horrible as this? Damaged ones, I would say. Very damaged.
Did Brown not know about this either? He said the line in the debate, so one should conclude that, just like with his leaflet smear campaign against the Tories and the SNP, he knew full well about it.
That alone should be enough to bury him in totally justified, universal condemnation.
And I thought we’d seen the worst of him, the lowest.
Not yet, it seems.
=Update=
And…pulled. Don’t expect we’ll be seeing that particular line of attack again from the corrupt Labourists (a couple of whom were stupid enough to leave comments here). Good, but the harm to what’s left of their reputations – and to the disabled – has been done. The grim last gasps of a heartless regime, and party, rotten to the core.
Western Male 