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Peter Wilby of the New Statesman and a former coll...

2007-12-16T22:47:00.000Z

Peter Wilby of the New Statesman and a former colleague was happy to endorse Chris Huhne in the 2006 leadership contest. Peter Wilby is nonetheless a Labour supporter.
On the other point, it is nice to think that people with different political opinions could happily get along as colleagues, but do not underestimate the loathing of the Labour Left towards the SDP in 1983.
There are a number of possible motives as to why Chris Huhne was victimised in the way that he was. The Private Eye decided to report one motive and offered no supporting evidence in doing so. I would suggest that if someone was prepared to resort to such a dirty trick, then that says more about their own personality defects than it does about Chris Huhne's.

Left-Lib - I'm sure you are right that Guardian st...

2007-12-16T21:22:00.000Z

Left-Lib - I'm sure you are right that Guardian staff members (including some who were not journalists) would have been of varying political stripes back in those days. But despite political differences, there is usually a modicum of comity among colleagues, especially for a respected journalist, that would preclude a trick that was that vicious. What this post seems to say is that Huhne's personality provoked the attack on him by people who disliked him personally not politically. So the question becomes is there any evidence that people at his later jobs held him in affection or did they feel about him the same way as his Guardian co-workers apparently did?

Back in 1983 the Guardian had journalists who were...

2007-12-16T10:52:00.000Z

Back in 1983 the Guardian had journalists who were in the SDP, Liberal party and Labour. Given the nature of the Labour party back then, it is no surprise that some of his colleagues would want to play this dirty trick on Chris Huhne.
It is hardly a revelation, and it seems absurd that Chris Huhne should be blamed when he was the victim of the behavoir of unscrupulous colleagues.