Former Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has been expelled from the House of Commons for dirty tricks during this year's general election campaign. Woolas went to great lengths to smear his LibDem opponent as a friend of violent Islamists. None if it was true, but it helped Woolas eke out a narrow victory, which the aggrieved LibDem promptly and successfully challenged in court.
It's clear that Woolas's people recognised the desperate situation their man was in: the smear strategy was known among his campaign team as "sh*t or bust".
That's not the laughable part though. This is.
The Labour Party has disowned Woolas. According to The Daily Telegraph, Harriet Harman, the party’s deputy leader, said his legal challenge would not be supported and added: “It is no part of Labour’s politics to try to win elections by telling lies.”
That statement deserves the same description as poor old Phil's campaign strategy. Except without the "or bust" part.
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