Good evening Iain Dale!

A lovely and cheery good evening to you Iain Dale. I hope you are having a lovely birthday.

I thought it might be helpful to point out that, as you’ve run a story about how awful the Liberal Democrats were for using a photo, you should perhaps check out your own blog posting of July 3rd.

I’m afraid Duncan Borrowman has already noticed that you’ve used a photograph yourself from a Liberal Democrat leaflet without getting permission. But I’m sure it’s not too late to put matters right. I’d do something quite quickly if I were you though, because it does rather look like you’ve personally done the very thing your story criticises the Liberal Democrats for doing?

And at that, I think I’ll call it a day on the issue. After all, once it’s been pointed out that the Conservatives in Ealing, the Conservative Parliamentary by-election team and the Conservatives’ national website have all done the very thing Iain Dale has reported the Tories attacking the Lib Dems for doing, there’s not really anything left to add to the pile of silliness is there?

Though it’d be fun for Iain to ask the person who fed him this story how they explain away all this hypocrisy…