The bloggers and the press are having fun (largely at Ellie Gellard’s expense it has to be said) about Labour inviting a young activist @bevaniteellie to help them launch their prospectus.
The Daily Mail dived in with this…“A glamorous young activist who introduced Mr Brown to the crowd at Labour’s manifesto launch in Birmingham has previously called for him to be removed as Prime Minister, and for the violent death of Baroness Thatcher.”
Iain Dale wrote of Comical Allie and Guido Fawkes gave us a remarkable image. For my part? – @bevaniteellie may well irritate some Tory bloggers and tweeters – they are more than able to cope – but at least she is enthusiastic about politics and is having a go. I quite like Emily Nomates take on the story in her blog…
“…There’s both great opportunity and danger in this kind of mania. Small mistakes become big fast: Ellie’s old blogpost from her more earnest days is elevated to a “gaffe” with the aid of a few nice smiling photos. And if you don’t agree that her sex has anything to do with this blow-up, just ask yourself why Ellie is on the front pages of two papers and official Labour PPC Steve MacLennan wasn’t.”
There are, of course, bigger issues than Ellie Gellard’s political change of mind – and today the Tories launch their manifesto which should present some opportunities for parody after they ran riot with Labour’s manifesto yesterday. By the way… I nicked the caption for the pic above from a commenter on one of the blogs or press reports… at least there is still some humour in what could become an ugly election campaign.
Back soon with some sanity… some law in Law Review
Ugh, it’s all so cynically, nauseatingly cheesy. Who do these bloody political parties think we are? They should be producing childrens’ television.