How Disaster Struck When Labour took on Guido - Observer
Fast Furious and Buccaneering, Guido Claims Scalp - Observer
The Rise and Rise of the Political Blogger - Sunday Herald
Juvenile or Not, the Buck Stops with Brown - Mail on Sunday
Guido Has Claimed a Prized Scalp - Indy
Sleazy Smears that Soil Downing Street - Sunday Times
Brilliant: the Lurid Lies of Sex and Drugs - Sunday Times
What McBride Tells Us About Brown - Fraser Nelson
Flashback : Draper “I Completely Deny” McBride - Tory Bear
Listening to Reader’s Comments - Washington Post
Guardian Daily Losses Average £83,000 - Times
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2009
Armando Iannucci Foresaw All
You can just imagine the panic in Downing Street on Friday with Tom Watson having conversations exactly like those in this clip, telling Damian and Derek to undo what he doesn’t know about and wouldn’t even remember if he did. The excuse lines used by Damian and Derek come straight from episode 6 of The Thick of It - including “this email was never intended to be seen by anyone but the recipient”.
Draper of course added to the real comedy with his defining Channel 4 News soundbite yesterday - “I wasn’t lying on purpose”. Armando Iannucci’s fictional version was “I unintentionally lied. Unknowingly might have told an untruth”.
Guido particularly likes the line “Malcolm Tucker has left the building”. Damian McBride has left the building.
+++ Liam Byrne Just Effectively Sacked Draper Live on Sky +++
Questioned repeatedly he disowned Dolly, he denied Dolly headed up Labour’s online operation. Byrne denied he had any official role in Labour.
So why did they launch LabourList in Labour HQ with Peter Mandelson and Dougie Alexander in attendance? Why did Gordon Brown invite Derek Draper to Chequers? What did they discuss - Strictly Come Dancing?
UPDATE : Alastair Campbell has just disowned McBride and Draper, with a nothing to do with me guv dismissal: “I barely know Mr McBride. I was vaguely aware of him being around the Treasury when I was in Number 10, and vaguely aware that he was closer to the Charlie Whelan school of strategic communications than my own. (I’m aware we tend to get lumped together in some sections, but I know the differences, even if they don’t.)”
UPDATE II : Clarke has just called for Draper and Whelan to consider their position. His was the voice that put the final nail in the coffin for McBride. He obviously hasn’t finished with that hammer…
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