- Firstly, as has been pointed out, his apology wasn't to the tax payers who he ripped off but to the Labour Party.
- He also claims that he was doing it in the line of combating fascism- an cause he deploys in the same way Jimmy Savile used his charity work. It is hard to believe that someone who genuinely cared about fighting fascism would throw smears at legitimate political opponents with as much glee as Macshameless did.
- He still has apologists, like the Telegraph's Blairite Dan Hodges who argues that he did it because MPs are underpaid. I mean if you're earning less than £100 000, then you are bound to lie and steal. However it ignores the fact that Macshane's history of being a mendacious shit did not always involve monetary gain and long predates him becoming an MP. He was sacked by the BBC in the 1970s for pretending to be a caller to a phone in show for political gain, he put out an article "The Five Myths Muslims Must Deny" under the name of a Muslim colleague, he regularly invented links to neo-nazis among his political opponents, he used bogus statistics to denounce people traficking then slandered those who called him out on it,
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We can be sure that the turd will pop up again when the water's cleared. You'll find him in some grey Labour post, all expenses paid, same old same old.
To The Jannie, I reckon you are right there. Labour placement are the turds that just will not flush.
I knew he was a turd, but I didn't quite realise how far he manages to out-turd real turds.
He was sacked by the BBC in the 1970s for pretending to be a caller to a phone in show for political gain...
Hah! I hadn't heard of that. A commenter at m'webzone has pointed out that as a former journalist he would have had the sympathy of hacks. And, perhaps, been a valuable source of inside information.
He's about as interesting as the boil on my bum.
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