Damian McBride may be gone, but his spirit lives on in Labour’s latest party political broadcast (watch it after the jump). It features a young chap in a suit (boo! class enemy!) who goes into an empty room and starts hitting a punchbag. Then it comes up with all sorts of claims that could have been drafted by McBride (and, come to think of it, probably were). “David Cameron would leave young people like me on the dole” runs the first – palpable nonsense.
It grows progressively more absurd. Then, finally: “What David Cameron would do is give £200,000 to 3,000 millionaires.” That’s a lie, rather than an exaggeration. He’s referring to inheritance tax, the “millionaires” he refers to would be (how you say?) dead and rather than “give” money, Cameron would propose that the state would not take it from them.
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