What on Earth is going on?

Today the knives have been out for Gordon Brown, including one which with astonishing shamelessness has been wielded by Hazel Blears. One almost sympathises for Brown in the calibre of his assassins, but that has always been an essential reason why so many of us have supported him on the principle 'If Blair, Clarke, Blunkett, Blears, (Insert Blairite/Tory) hate him he must be a great person.' To be honest Brown probably deserves to go, he has consistently let down his supporters and has shown an astonishing lack of leadership in allowing the Tories to gain any benefit at all from a scandal in which they seem (I don't know the exact ins and outs) to have perpetrated the worst crimes. In this sense Brown is his own victim but it's seems astonishing that in the midst of the bloodletting that one HUGE story seems to have slipped under everyone's radar. This is that Cameron was at it! The leader of the Conservative Party paid off one mortgage so he could claim the maximum on another. Let us not forget that 'The People's Dave' is a multi-millionaire and so could easily afford the repayments of interest and not only that the mortgage is astronomical. As far as I can tell from his interview on Channel 4 his only defence seems to be that he didn't charge the whole of the claim to the taxpayer. If this is the case it means that Dave seems to think he is entitled to a certain level of taxpayer funding for his astronomical mortgage (he chose to pay off his non-taxpayer funded one) and that this is somehow mitigated by the fact that he is rich enough to have a larger house than he could otherwise get on his dodgy expense claims. What a fantastically Tory way of looking at things! I do hope those who bother to vote Blue tomorrow realise the green they are voting for is the extra acres of Dave's lawn the taxpayer has paid for. http://page.politicshome.com/uk/cameron_on_his_mortgage_claims.html

While I am aware that Gordon's attempts to prove Jilted John correct are probably the main political story of the moment, William Hague's hilarious attempt to justify one of the most scandalous elements of modern politics also deserves a mention. For anyone who hasn't seen it 'Ar Willyum refuses to answer Paxman's question on whether he has asked Lord Ashcroft about his Tax Status. Which funnily enough is exactly what the Tory Party Chairman refuses to do when asked that question by us. Whilst under current law it is perfectly acceptable to avoid tax, some in the Tory Party even say moral, it was under the condition that he paid UK tax that he was made a Lord and he is effectively funding the Tory election campaign allegedly through offshore companies. So perhaps we do have a right to know whether a man who effectively doesn't live in this country and is not British (for tax purposes) is influencing our democracy.
http://page.politicshome.com/uk/hague_pressed_on_ashcroft_tax_status.html