Monday, 23 November 2009

The problem for the liar...

Ben Bradshaw, the media, etc minister, is conducting a campaign against the Sun newspaper particularly and the Murdock empire generally.

He is talking about the Tories doing unnamed deals with the Sun, with Bradshaw apparently apparently trying to reduce any influence the paper might have in the forthcoming election campaign.

I have no knowledge one way or the other about a deal, but it does strike me that there may be a little sour grapes in NuLabour having lost the support of the Sun, etc, on which they had relied for so many years.

If you have had support because of a deal done, then you suspect that anyone else must have behaved in exactly the same way.

I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said, "The problem for the liar is not that nobody believes him. It is that he can't believe anyone else."

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