Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear Gordon Brown,
You must be wandering what hit you.  Any thoughts of a quiet Easter weekend were shattered by ‘Smeargate’.  What everyone seems to have missed was that yesterday, you made a policy announcement that beared no relation whatsoever to any dodgy emails or dodgy expenses claims.  However, your ‘new’ policy clarified two things: firstly, [...]

From the News of the World:

SMEAR ONE . . . a story that Conservative leader David Cameron has an embarrassing medical condition.

SMEAR TWO . . . a vicious triple attack on Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. It suggests he had sex and took drugs with a prostitute, that his wife is “emotionally fragile” and that [...]

From the Guardian in 2007:
Nicknamed ‘Damien McPoison’ by lobby journalists, he is one of Whitehall’s most aggressive operators. Another former communications head at the Treasury and now, technically, a special adviser, McBride adopts an old-school approach to PR, frequently enjoying long, boozy lunches with influential journalists.
‘He is very good at what he does, and they [...]

Dear readers,
This is Gordon Brown.
 
Actually, this is Gordon Brown.

The reason this is interesting is because the top photo is cut and paste from a Government report released yesterday, and I think you’ll agree that Gordon Brown is looking remarkably thin and young with considerably less grey hair than we are used to seeing.
…which becomes more [...]