Scientology and Fib Dems: Both Churches of the Poisoned Mind?

W Ming Campbell (left) and L Ron Hubbard (right); are they by any chance related?

The Daily Mail has discovered at last that both Tories and Labour allowed Conference stalls from the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) which is in fact a thin front for L Ron Hubbard's Church of the Poisoned Mind.

The crazy cultists at UKIP think that's great though they mention only the Tories. For as we all know and the Tories say so frequently UKIP are simply a Labour-Party Front. Willing the Cameroonies to lose their stuffed but nicely tailored shirts. But Mad Chad and the other UKIPers can deal with this ridiculous smear themselves.

Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said:
"Scientology is a dubious cult at best and it's worrying that it seems to have infiltrated both Labour and the Tories in this way. It only goes to show that some politicians are prepared to take money from anyone. Given Scientology's record of spin it is no surprise that they have links to this Labour Government."

Ouch! Especially considering this is from the fibbers party who took millions of money which hadn't even been laundered properly from a gnomic chancer based in Switzerland, not operating in the UK, and who has subsequently been enjoying legal attention.

Norman Baker is of course smarting that "ABLE" did not darken their door and ask for a stall at their Blackpool Chamber of Waxwork Horrors. My guess is that the science-fiction cultists saw the Lib Dems coming:
* exploiting weak people
* undermining their confidence
* then building it up again
* letting them distribute dodgy leaflets
* make ridiculous assertions
* even become a paid representative
* and be able as millionairess Lynne Featherstone once remarked to finally get off the dole and afford a cleaner

Some of these deluded ones could even become "Opposition Front Bench Spokesperson", as the third party's number four in transport calls himself.

The Scientologists simply recognised that the sandally Libdemologists had already bought into a freakish cult. Albeit an un-science fiction cult.

INSIGHT: Bumped into one of the ABLE ones at their stall at LP Conference in Manchester. Told him no I didn't want his creepy "kids charity" leaflets. The creepy scientologist then followed me for 100 yards protesting and demanding I explain. And I certainly did! But I thought there were probably better things to complain about at our conference.

MORE INSIGHT: Once upon a time I was campaigning in City Centre Manchester and went to take some "before" snaps with our team of a small gardens on Artillery Lane which had accumulated much dreck over previous years. Including plastic surgery client lists from dodgy clinics, fliers from dodgy bars, and detritus from rough sleepers and other clandestine users. The Lib Dem incumbents had not lifted a finger. Even though one of them - a barrister who only made half his committee meetings and put in only one in five reports before he ran away - drove by this mess every working day.

To cut a long story short when we got there the scientologists from the pictured "church" were out in force with a Landrover with trailer, a white van, and an industrial power washer. Moral of this story - Lib Dems and Scientologists are both dodgy fiction cults. Scientologists get things done.