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Well lookey, lookey over here on the @LambethLabour campaign site for Clapham Common Tulse Hill candidate Ruth Ling:

“A local political commentator who often supports the Lib Dems has called their Tulse Hill by-election campaign ‘vile and disgusting.’

The blogger wrote on his popular website:

Lambeth Lib Dems have confused the possibility for political debate with a vile and disgusting mud slinging opportunity.”

Yep, indeed I did call the @LambethLibDems campaign leaflet “vile and disgusting.” A quick trawl through the archives of the “popular website” [arf!] and I see that I also described the infamous @LambethLabour video nasty as:

“A pathetic attempt at smearing, and one which backfired badly.”

I have no problem in continuing to call the @LambethLibDems campaign in Tulse Hill vile. Why would I – it’s not as if *shhh* I have any connections with the Love Me I’m a Liberal Lot. Throw enough mud, and you never know, it may just stick.

It’s a funny old trick that Nu Labour are playing, trying to corner all their critics together, and making out as though there is some form of formal relationship. Sorry fellas, it’s just that I see some of the right wing policies being rolled out in the Rotten Borough, as, um, vile.

Looking elsewhere around the Tulse Hill blog, I see that:

“MP Chuka backs Ruth Ling “

Good for yer man Chuka. I most certainly don’t back Ruth Ling in Tulse Hill. She is a fine candidate and served the good people of Clap’ham Common rather well for fifteen years. But having lost her seat to the blue rinse mob (cripes,) Ruth is nothing but a parachute candidate over in SW2.

Oh, and whilst we’re at it – Ruth might like to change her (protected) twitter account, which still currently has her down under the username of ClaphamCommonner, not to mention the headed notepaper featuring Clap’ham Common that appeared on an unexplained invoice for £500 during the MP’s expsense scandal.

Whoops.

Lambeth is as rich in geography as it is in diversity. It’s a mighty long way from the leafy suburbs of Clap’ham Common to some of the extreme poverty that remains around Tulse Hill. The area needs a local candidate who understands these issues. Sadly it appears that such a candidate doesn’t appear on the Tulse Hill ballot paper.

The whole Tulse Hill Situation is so delicate that it is not possible to have a reasoned debate right now without sub judice. What is known however is that the previous Councillor that “resigned” was a popular local figure who understood rather well what measures are needed to improve the neighborhood.

The resignation came “at the request” of @LambethLabour, and not from the Councillor himself. Innocent until proven guilty ‘n all that. Seems pretty, um, vile to me.

So yeah, @TulseHillNews – the @LambethLibDem campaign in Tulse Hill remains a disgusting mud slinging opportunity.

Let he who cast the first stone.