Friday 8 May 2009

Uncensored expenses revelation is Labour spin operation?

Blogs everywhere are going bananas about the Telegraph's revelations of MP's uncensored expenses claims. Although we were due to see these in July, MPs ordered certain "private" (read incriminating) details be removed.

At the moment, these are all about the current Labour government and so far Harperson has been flitting from Sky to the BBC (Pravda) in a vain attempt to repeat the mantra:

"It was within the rules, the old system was wrong, we have recognised this and we will be reviewing this"
Which I and everyone else reads as:

"Shit! We've been caught out, it's bad, very bad, and now we've got to pretend to change the system"
However, once again my spider senses are tingling:

Could this simply be an opportunistic way of dumping out bad Labour news now, and then revealing the Tory expenses closer to the elections in a few weeks time, especially considering the Labour biased behaviour of the Telegraph over the last few years?

3 comments:

  1. An interesting take on the situation and one that I'd barely considered until now.. .. .. if the Telegraph spin it out that way surely it will backfire on them by reducing their readership further?

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  2. A thought shouldn't be spared for the Conservatives is this. They're not likely to come up much better.

    The Tories aren't saying much now and the government won't be campaigning on it later.

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