Tory Blogs: Knees Turned to Water, Think They're Going Blind

Iain Dale has made what seems like a rather spurious attack on John Mann MP HERE. Questioning how it is that Mann is not on the backs of Labour second homers as, allegedly, he would be if it were Tories. Like for example the unfortunately misrepresented Eric Pickles MP. But John Mann specialises in outing strange and incorrectly declared political contributions not claims under MP's institutionally disreputable terms and conditions. Iain has missed the target by a mile here.

His commenters care little for Mann and are using this vacuum to bleat about a Jacqui Smith story of dubious merits. Two feature films with 18 classification plus three other features were mistakenly not excluded from a claim for the broadband connection(s) which MPs are entitled to claim.

These two pay-per-view films - costing about £7:50 altogether - are being characterised throughout the Tory blogosphere as "adult", "porn", "sleaze" and so on. Although the rather thin story is on the cover of the inky Sunday Express it does not have a link of any kind from the front page of the web edition. In fact it looks as if the story has been somethingly spiked.

Seems like a very minor clerical error on the part of the Smith office. And one that was immediately corrected at that. The hypocritical, puritanical, and possibly disingenuous gutter media and gutter bloggers are going at it hammer and tongs with prurient ridiculousness on a story whose knees have turned to water. As Ivor Biggun would say. It doesn't have the legs. The Express have all but removed it.

Meanwhile Nigel Griffiths MP really should have a word with Max Mosely.