I am honestly getting sick of this really. The longer this goes on the more damage it will do long term to our democratic institution which heavily relies on (but not exclusively) the contest of ideas in a free and open manner.
How on Earth can we contest ideas in the democratic institution when the main opposition is screwed.Labour has two choices:
1) Haul backside and fix their mess
2) Die and allow a new party or parties rise from the ashes – Free Market style
Intelligent people occasionally make stupid mistakes. Exhibit A: Karen Price setting up an anonymous Twitter account in order to lambast her husband’s foes. There’s something very unMachiavellian about choosing an “anonymous” Twitter handle that allowed people who knew you to guess your identity…
It wasn’t a smart thing to do, but let’s look at it in context. Convention dictates that as a “political wife”, Karen Price doesn’t get to vent in public about her husband being put through the wringer, especially not when most of those putting him through the wringer are in fact his own colleagues. Twitter provided an ability to vent anonymously, at a time of enormous stress and pressure.
So she got found out. And she’s apologised:
“After a period of intense media attention and scrutiny of our family, I set up and used an anonymous Twitter account over the weekend and made a number of comments that…
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