The e-mail filth continues to dominate the press today. To sum it
up here is the doyen of ‘Fleet Street’ political editors Trevor
Kavanagh.
To follow I give some of the headlines in the rest of the press
Brown set this all up and cannot pretend it was not his doing is
perhaps the best summary
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THE SUN 13.4.09
'Mad Dog' was trained to maul

Sleaze machine ... New Labour
By TREVOR KAVANAGH
THERE’S no such thing as a badly behaved dog — only a badly
trained dog.
Damian “Mad Dog” McBride was bred to kill. And he was obedient to
one master — Gordon Brown.
McBride, alias “McPoison”, was recruited from the Treasury by the
then Chancellor, who was impressed by his natural aggression.
The PM likes to be seen as a bookish intellectual, a Son of the Manse
devoted to “the right thing”.
In fact he spends more of his remorseless energy plotting against
perceived enemies — Labour and Tory — than on making Britain great
again.
Obedient ... Damian McBride
New Labour was born as the party of political dark arts. Sleaze is
its stock in trade and the brand runs through this Government machine
like a name through a stick of rock.
In the past 13 years every lever of power has been pulled to praise
New Labour and damn its foes.
All parties use character assassination, including Tories and,
especially, the Lib Dems.
But Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, ably assisted by Alastair Campbell
and Peter Mandelson, invented a deadly new box of black magic.
Anyone was fair game — even those closest to the core who stepped
out of line.
Peter Mandelson, Prince of Darkness, was ruthlessly destroyed when
his secret — and illegal — mortgage scam was made public.
Only three people — including his arch-enemy Gordon Brown — shared
that secret.
Rising Labour stars such as Alan Milburn and Charles Clarke were
scorched when they flew too close to Gordon’s flame.
Over the years I have watched Brown’s Cabinet critics looking dazed
as a damaging secret appeared on a front page.
The leaks were all the more shocking because they came not from the
Tory enemy but from behind them in their own ranks.
Tony Blair spent most of his Premiership fighting rearguard actions
against Brown plotters.
He left his own dirty work of political assassination to Alastair
Campbell, who tackled it with relish. It kept him in power for ten
long years.
Undead
It is hard to imagine decent Old Labour leaders such as John Smith or
Jim Callaghan stooping to such unscrupulous tactics.
But Gordon Brown sees sleaze as the way to oil the political wheels.
He hand-picks smiling assassins such as Charlie Whelan and Damian
McBride as hired guns, digging dirt and squirreling it away for later
deployment.
Mandelson was finished off twice, only to become one of Labour’s
Undead, returning to haunt the party and insinuate himself back into
New Labour’s coven.
Another cast into Outer Darkness was Mandy’s bagman, Derek
“Dolly” Draper, an unstable cocktail of charm and venom.
Draper disappeared after a lobbying scandal, only to reinvent himself
as a professional psycho-babbler and Labour blogger.
Having learned nothing and forgotten nothing from his bad old days,
he swiftly formed a pact with McBride.
Helping them dish the dirt was Brown’s Rasputin, Charlie Whelan, who
left to fish salmon in Scotland after being sacked a decade earlier.
He has since been reborn at Unite as Gordon’s powerful trade union
ally.
While Gordon was saving the world, devious Mandy was pulling their
strings — along with hatchet man Tom Watson.
It was Watson, now a minister and McBride’s Downing Street boss, who
finished off Tony Blair in a plotters’ coup — 24 hours after
conferring with Gordon at his Fife home.
This was the motley crew who dreamed grisly lies about David Cameron
and George Osborne.
Caught red-handed, the scandal-mongers tried the old trick of
pretending it was all juvenile high jinks and never intended for
publication.
Don’t fall for it.
This was a sinister and unscrupulous operation to malign the next
government. It was intended to hurt anyone in range, including
innocent bystanders.
Astonishingly, considering his own breakdown, Draper was even
prepared to smear the wife of George Osborne with hints of depression.
Whatever denials or apologies are now issued, that smear is now as
indelible as it is distressing.
Having disposed of his Rottweiler, Mr Brown has washed his hands of
the affair.
But can he seriously claim that he had no idea what was going on?
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IN OTHER PAPERS
==Gordon Brown's vicious side is now clear to the whole country
McBride was Brown's sinister prop for years, and the loneliness of
office is no excuse. This is a dreadful day for No 10
• Jackie Ashley - Guardian
==PETER OBORNE: The Prime Minister is up to his neck in this squalid
affair. But the real villain is Alastair Campbell
By PETER OBORNE - Daily Mail
==Damian McBride’s mistake was thinking it might work
Alastair Campbell: The Times [This one needs reading because it’s
quite sick-making in the ‘nothing-to-do-
==Nadine Dorries: I have become accustomed to the grubby world of
British politics. But nothing could prepare me for this
[This MP was one of the victims -cs] Independent
PLUS LEADING ARTICLES IN : -
Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent and Mail
Monday, 13 April 2009
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