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23/04/2009

Conservative blogger says 'smeargate' will cost Brown 50 seats

Britain's infamous Tory political blogger Guido Fawkes claims a senior Labour party insider told him the recent revelations had cost the party up to 50 seats at the next general election.

Fawkes, real name Paul Staines, the man responsible for the fall of No.10 spin doctor Damian McBride, told The Big Issue in Scotland: “A former head of spin said to me you’ve probably cost us about 40 or 50 seats and we won’t get them back.”

Labour currently has a majority of 66 in Westminster. A general election is expected, at the latest, next May. Staines added that should the Conservative Party return to power, his attacks on the Westminster elite would continue.

“Some people think that when the Tories get in I’ll be on the wane, but I’ll enjoy kicking the Cameroons as much as you can imagine,” he said. “No problem with that.”

He added: “I suppose McBride is my second major scalp, I’ve had a few (victims of) collateral damage along the way. What goes around come around. McBride and me have been banging off each other for a few years. Some of the younger spin doctors admire (In the Loop’s) Malcolm Tucker the way that the young Tories used to admire Alan B’Stard.”

Read Guido Fawkes Letter to younger self here

 


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