Good old Alastair Campbell has been out and about today, showing just why he was once such a valued spin doctor. The onetime master of the dark arts has been vexed, nay outraged, over Tory MPs daring to question Gary Lineker’s decision to liken the government’s rhetoric on asylum seekers ‘to that used by Germany in the 30s.’ For good measure the BBC star added the legislation proposed was ‘immeasurably cruel.’
Campbell has been working himself into a self-righteous lather about those pointing out that Lineker is supposed to be bound by the Beeb’s impartiality guidelines, firing off endless tweets that suggest the row is a storm ‘whipped up by the populist right.’ He even wrote an article for the New European, titled ‘In defence of Gary Lineker’ in which he claimed ‘It’s the right and the duty of anyone with a platform to speak out against this cruelty.’
Noble stuff.
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