The woe of working for the Labour party
In amongst a rather tawdry “expose” of Labour’s campaign during the last election that was in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday by a West Midlands regional organiser was this gem, about a key campaigner visit by Prezza:
The venue was an open square in the centre of town, but minutes from the appointed time, a call came from Karim Palant on the Prescott Xpress: “Richard, is it raining with you?”
“Well, it’s trying to, but it’s nothing heavy. Why?”
“Er, well, it’s Pauline. Her hair, it could be a problem.”
“What are you talking about? And who’s Pauline?”
“Prescott’s wife! You remember the whole thing at conference when it was windy? Well if she’s gonna get her hair wet, that’s going to screw up the whole visit.”
Don’t you love it when your mates’ important-sounding jobs turn out to be babysitting ministers’ wives’ hairdos?
Oh dear… What a sad little collection of tittle tattle…
The organisers who got the jobs post election probably had more significant memories than whether Karim did or didn’t say that.
Not that I’m accusing Richard of being extravagant with the anecdotes in order to make it more like the kind of story the Daily Mail would buy, but since he’s got some significant details about the job I was doing wrong, and has completely misunderstood a significant incident in the Yes campaign, let’s just say the article is down to the Mail’s usual standards eh?
The Tories would never do things like that, would they?
I was rather amused to read that about Karim - but apparently Pauline Prescott never actually went to the West Midlands during the election, there were no visits cancelled due to rain, Karim didn’t work on the Prescott express (as Richard would have known, working at the desk opposite him) and all in all … well…let’s say Karim describes himself as “baffled”.
Extravagance for the Daily Mail? Well of course, Richard is a liar: you can see that with his backtracking on his status as a non-barrister. If you spend your whole life lying then sooner or later they will catch up with you.