Yup, Labour MP David Wright is in the brown stuff this weekend after he called the Tories “scum sucking pigs” on his twitter page.
This was too strong language for the Tories though, and he’s had to apologise to them.
His tweet, though, was factually correct. You can put lipstick on a scum sucking pig, but it will still be a scum sucking pig. He didn’t mention Tories in the posting. Eric Pickles, the Chairman of the Tory Party, didn’t sound very impressed.
“This is exactly the sort of politics that voters are so sick of.”
“All one of Gordon Brown’s ministers can provide in response is gutter language.”
“This sort of language falls way short of what you would expect of a minister of the Crown.”
Yup, you’ve either got gutter politics, or sound-bite politics. How nice of Mr Pickles to give THREE succinct soundbites.
But hang on a sec. This is the same Tory party crying foul play whose leader (John Major) called his cabinet “Bastards” in 1993. In the 1980s, the Federation of Conservative Students used the campaign slogan “Hang Mandela.” John Bercow, now Speaker of the House of Commons, was in charge of them. The same party which has Boris Johnson, who wrote in his book in 2001, ““If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.” Staying on the gay topic, David Cameron was interviewed by the Independent newspaper recently, after reading, many were still unsure of his true views toward gay people. He voted to keep Section 28. If that helps.
And I know this is going back a fair bit, but in 1964, Birmingham candidate Peter Griffiths stole the seat of Smethwick with his campaign slogan “If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour.” Mr Pickles could do well to remember where his party has come from, the more recent history and what’s left to do…
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