Yesterday the Yorkshire Post reported that the Calder Valley’s newly selected Labour parliamentary candidate Steph Booth coerced employees into writing anonymous comments about her Labour opponent on local websites.
With friends like these, who need enemies.
Coming just a few weeks after the McBride email debacle, it looks like the Cherie Blair’s wicked stepmother has been reading The Little Labour Book of Dirty Tricks.
Following accusations of selection voting irregularities, this latest story will do the Labour Party no favours in the Calder Valley.
Update:
Just read the comments concerned on the Halifax Courier website:
anjustarks, calder valley 15/01/2009 16:46:47
Lucas B. It’s exactly this kind of stubborn insistence that only you and people that think like you are right that puts the ordinary voter off. Why on Earth would anyone in this consituency bother to vote at all let alone vote Labour? Think I’ll just stay at home on voting day
Ooo!!! The irony!!
Just in case you wondering why the allegations about Steph Booth only appeared in the Yorkshire Post and not in the Courier or Hebden Bridge Times…. Did you know that the HB Times had to publish an apology to Steph (12 March 2009)for publishing a reader’s letter suggesting that Steph was involved in the campaign to discredit Janet Oosthuysen. Yet this is what the YP article seems to suggest.
I did wonder why the HBT was uncharacteristically quiet on the subject.
Missed the apology back in March.
I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of the Steph Booth / Calder Valley Saga.
There are a lot of unhappy people out there…
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