Dirtier tactics

I think we all expected this election campaign to be fought a few inches below the belt. But, as Iain Dale and Dizzy say, Labour’s tactic of mailing scaremongering leaflets to cancer sufferers is some new kind of low. I mean, just imagine how it would feel to receive, as a cancer patient or an immediate family member, a leaflet which politicises the problem to the point of suggesting that your care would be jeapordised by voting for another party. And then imagine how it would feel if you have been specifically targeted because of your connections with the illness, as seems to have been the case here. Well, it defies belief that this is how the party of government is going about “restoring trust in our broken politics,” or whatever they say. This goes well beyond any acceptable level of campaign rough and tumble.