Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Denis Macshane Achieves Rare Double Beclowning.

It's hard to know which is the greater example of Denis Macshane's oafishness in the last 24 hours.

Is it accusing the Tories of supporting the massacres of Jews during WWII (no really) or is it disastrous performance on Newsnight where he tried to defend his claim that there were 25000 trafficked women in the UK (21 minutes in) and his subsequent article in the Guardian defending his fact free position (over 80 comments so far and every single one is critical of Macshane).

He really is horrible, sort of a Labour equivalent of David Mellor hated by his opponents and loathed by his own side.

5 comments:

Matthew said...

Macshane, a liar. It's really shocking.

JuliaM said...

Heh!

Mind you, CiF is fighting back on the non-traffickked women front. I think they are up to about five articles now with variations of: the survey was wrong, they were all hiding, this is all a plot and it doesn't matter if they didn't find any, it's STILL a problem!

James Higham said...

Why do people like him get on to TV and people like you and me don't?

Ross said...

"Why do people like him get on to TV and people like you and me don't?"

I could not produce television even 1/10th as entertaining as that Macshane interview.

Ross said...

"it doesn't matter if they didn't find any, it's STILL a problem!"

It seems almost like a religious belief doesn't it?