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Brown set up the whole of this poisonous snake pit paid for by us Tom 
Watson, Draper running Labourlist, Campbell, Mandelson the whole 
b***y lot should be sacked forthwith. Brown constructed this horror - 
Admit it and resign too.

He says "no ministers were involved " but McBride implicates Watson 
in the whole publicly funded dirty tricks department set up by Brown, 
though possibly not in this particular one.

This report is Brown's response - a threadbare response.  Tam Dalyell 
the veteran Labour former MP has no doubts (see end).  I've fought 
the Labour Party for years but for most of that time I have respected 
their decency and sincerity! NO MORE!

Let's hear no more "son of the Manse" hypocrisy.  Brown has no morals 
at all.

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TELEGRAPH 13.4.09
Gordon Brown: no ministers involved in email scandal
Gordon Brown has sought to limit the fallout from the Damian McBride 
emails scandal, insisting no ministers were involved and calling for 
tighter rules to prevent a repeat.

By Stephen Adams

In a letter to Sir Gus O'Donnell, the head of the civil service, the 
Prime Minister said the controversy sparked by the senior aide's 
slurs against several high-profile Tories was "a matter of great 
regret".

He said in future special advisers should have to sign an agreement 
that engaging in such personal attacks would lead to instant dismissal.

Mr Brown, who faced demands from one of the MPs named in the email 
for a personal apology, said he had written personally to all of 
those slurred, including David Cameron, the Tory leader.

The Prime Minister's special adviser resigned at the weekend when the 
emails were revealed.

In his letter, Mr Brown told Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus he had been 
"assured that no minister and no political adviser other than the 
person involved had any knowledge of or involvement in these [but 
what about all the others ?  -cs]  private emails that are the 
subject of current discussion".

It followed Tory calls for Sir Gus to investigate whether Cabinet 
Office minister Tom Watson had any involvement and how much the PM 
himself knew about plans for a Labour "attack" website.

Mr Brown said he accepted "all of us in public life have a 
responsibility to ensure that those we employ and who are in involved 
in our parties observe the highest standards".

Calling for tighter rules, he wrote: "Mr McBride has apologised and 
done so unreservedly. But it is also important to make sure such 
behaviour does not happen again.

"Any activity such as this that affects the reputation of our 
politics is a matter of great regret to me and I am ready to take 
(wait for it! -cs]  whatever action is necessary to improve our 
political system."  [He set this up - he's wrecked it and now he 
pretends to want to put it right - YUK! -cs]

A revised code of conduct for special advisers [should NOT be paid 
for by the taxpayer as Heseltine demanded tonight -cs]  should in 
future include "a more explicit assurance ... that not only are the 
highest standards expected of political advisers but that the 
preparation or dissemination of inappropriate material or personal 
attacks have no part to play in the job of being a special adviser, 
just as it has no part to play in the conduct of all our public life.
"I also think it right to make it a part of the special advisers' 
contract by asking our political advisers to sign such an assurance 
and to recognise that if they are ever found to be preparing and 
disseminating inappropriate material they will automatically lose 
their jobs."  [That applies to prime ministers too.  This one is 
deeply involved having set up the system -cs]


He insisted he had "taken responsibility" for the scandal by 
accepting the resignation of Mr McBride [big deal! -cs]  - a very 
close adviser to Mr Brown for many years - "and by making it clear to 
all concerned that such actions have no part to play in the public 
life of our country".
"I have also written personally to all those who were subject to 
these unsubstantiated claims." 0

Earlier, in an attempt to quell the furore, Alan Johnson, the Health 
Secretary, made a series of media appearances, in which he admitted 
the messages were "totally salacious" and had brought "shame" on Labour.
But, seeking to limit the wider impact of the scandal, Mr Johnson 
claimed Gordon Brown had no need to apologise for them because he 
could not "be responsible for the actions, the initiatives, of every 
individual that works in Number 10.".  [They were politic`al 
appointments paid for by us from Brown's personal circle of filth.  
He knew them, he appointed them. He is to blame -cs]

Describing his reaction to the emails - sent by the Prime Minister's 
close
aide Damian McBride in an apparent attempt to smear several leading 
Conservatives - Mr Johnson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I am 
surprised and I am shocked and I am disgusted. The content of those 
ideas that were put around by Damian McBride, I don't think anyone 
could read that without having a sense of disgust."

He added: "They were cruel apart from anything else, totally 
salacious. I do feel some shame that anyone associated with the 
Labour Party would even contemplate using that in British politics."

As pressure grew on Mr Brown to make a personal apology, Mr Johnson 
said it would was "unfair" to suggest he needed to do so. 
["unfair" !! - HIS appointyees are doing it all the time with HIS 
b;essing - cs]
He said: "The Prime Minister can't be responsible for the actions, 
the initiatives, of every individual that works in Number 10 or works 
in the civil service or works through Cabinet.
"As soon as he found out about this behaviour, he acted. But I think 
it is totally unfair to say that because this individual... did this, 
then somehow the Prime Minister must be responsible for it.
"What David Cameron and others and the public should expect was the 
immediate action the Prime Minister took: Damian McBride went; the 
Prime Minister issued a statement.
"That was forthright, that was clear and I think any reasonable 
person, given that the Prime Minister only found out about this when 
the story broke, would think that's a reasonable response."  [These 
are weasel words.  Brown's remit must have been along 'Don 't tell me 
the details the if it goes wrong I can deny it -cs]

Mr Johnson also dismissed suggestions that there was a culture within 
Government encouraging such behaviour.

However, shortly after he did so, Tam Dalyell, the ex-Labour MP and 
former Leader of the Commons, described Number 10 as a "viper's 
nest"  [my description has been ] a poisonous snake pit" - same thing 
1 -cs] and criticised Mr Brown's decision to employ Mr McBride

Mr Dalyell, respected on all sides of the House of Commons, said: "It 
looks to a great many members of the Labour Party that Downing Street 
has become a viper's nest.
"The difficulty is, how do you employ a man like McBride in the first 
place? Do you think that Jim Callaghan would have given such a man 
the time of day? No.
"Or, for that matter, Harold Wilson? Or John Smith? Certainly not."
Mr Dalyell added: "I am very upset on behalf of the Labour Party, and 
so are a great many other members of the party. If I was a Labour MP 
at the moment, I would be as sick as a parrot."