Summary
It is a pity, perhaps, that there was no award for a best foot- in-the-mouth category at this week's Oscars ceremony, for we would not have been short of political candidates. We no sooner had the fall-out from Tory MP Ann Winterton's appallingly insensitive "joke" about the death of Chinese cocklers in Morecambe Bay when the Labour Party produced an own-goal at its Scottish conference in Inverness.
According to the party's chairman, Ian McCartney MP, Oliver Letwin, the shadow chancellor, who is of Jewish descent, should be compared to Dickens's character Fagin. "The real danger," he told an Inverness conference, "is the Tories. What would life under 'Slasher Letwin' be like? No Oliver Twist this man - more of a Fagin.See the full content of this document
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The Trouble with Going Over the Top
"This 21st-century Fagin will pick the pockets of Scotland's pensioners by abolishing the pension credit and then plan for a new generation of poor pensioners by abolishing the second state pension."
As the Tory party has...See the full content of this document
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