Doughty TV Exclusive: Blair Not Campbell Called Brown "Psychologically Flawed", Allegedly

Are these Spin Doctors we can trust? Lance Price ducks and dives quite a bit around whether this story, his own dining out story, is true or not. Man-in-pub-told-me level of verification really. Which gets bloggers a bad name.

It's a marvellous exclusive if true. Even if a bit on the "Dog Bites Man" end of things. But a bit worrying nonetheless. LoL chose to apologise a couple of years ago after hearing and repeating some things in a similar way - the new Lib Dem MP has a luxury sports car - which was simply and very sorry to say NOT TRUE.

They HAD extracted £25,000 in short order from one vulnerable 69-year-old supporter. They HAD hushed this up at their own celebration including an incredible 'snatching the mic' moment (actually from someone who was themselves a donor though no record at Electoral Commission so presumably small amounts only?). They HAD burnt the entire edition of one of their election leaflets. They HAD claimed to only spend £17 on phones when having an extensive phone campaign. They HAD obviously fibbed about Christie Hospital and about Keith Bradley's record.

Leech HAD bamboozled a soft Labour peer to grab a bargain new London pad. Leech HAD splashed out on some lovely new sofas and drapes. And local Lib Dems WERE upset with this combination of conspicuous consumption and ingrate treatment of the donor.

But Leech HAD NOT bought a flashy new car. That was the one inaccuracy in the hot news from the leaky Lib Dems.

All these other revelations and more from the card-carrying Libdemologists were it seems true. But they can't resist throwing a fib in. My mistake was quite simply believing a Lib Dem.

Is Lance Price a bit like that? Is he even a Lib Dem? My mistake was believing a Lib Dem without checking every single "fact". They are still whining on about it TO THIS DAY HERE. And that was in the laughable South Manchester Distorter letters page. Hardly the big media of 18 Doughty Street and Iain Dale's Diary.

Usually it is Leech himself or his henchman Cllr Paul Shannon* but on there they're all hiding under silly aliases and they continue to go off topic - which in this case is supposed to be the Willie Rennie/John Leech double act speaking out against the cluster bombs which Rennie's lobbying firm's client Raytheon actually make.

Should Iain Dale be letting a loose cannon on his estimable web-TV show? And then blogging the cannon balls that fly, all over the web? And tomorrow the inkies no doubt.

* It really is coming to something when utterly useless Lib Dem councillors stick nonsense about themselves (and their natty cars) on Wikipedia.