And another example of how CCHQ made a fool of Iain Dale

Time for a quick leaf through my leaflet files this morning and what do I find from the Conservative leaflets in the Cheadle Parliamentary by-election?

Well, let’s just say that I don’t think the CCHQ staffer who fed Iain the line about how awful it is for parties to use photos of other party’s candidates in their leaflets remembered to tell Iain what photo the Conservatives used in their Cheadle by-election literature or where it came from…

In summary:

(a) The Conservatives regularly do something in election campaigns

(b) They then try to whip up a story about how awful it is if the Liberal Democrats do the same thing

(c) Iain Dale runs the story, but fails to mention (a).

Crikey, one might even start using the word Pravda Iain… But that would be mean, and you did say nice things about two Liberal Democrat MPs on the telly last night, so I won’t.