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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Auto-apologies from Labour

More worrying developments from Labour Central Office:

Sorry seems to be the hardest word for Labour MPs after it emerged that Labour party headquarters have issued ready-made ‘sorry’ letters for their MPs to send to angry constituents who complain over the expenses scandal.

Instead of writing heartfelt apologies, Labour MPs just need to insert their constituents name and then sign. The letters are even designed to sound personal, beginning, “I thought twice about sending thisletter because I know how rightly angry people are with MPs.”

I understand it saves time and it's a damage limitation exercise but there's something depressingly cynical and inhuman about this adopted approach from Labour.

People are angry with politicians and only a General Election will assuage such feelings, certainly not robotic sounding mass-mail letters.

2 comments:

Math Campbell said...

Oh ho ho, it gets better. I blogged here about that Sun article on the Marr show stuff...

They seem to think it will be Milliband that gives him the revolver and the bottle of brandy....
So with Labour taking a hammering at the polls, the public only getting angrier at everything Labour do to quiet down the trough-gate stories and now a dagger-betwixt-the-ribs from Labours own "something of the night about him" chap, the only quesiton is how long will it be before Gordo succumbs.

I think, despite managing to comeback time and again in the last 2 years, that Brown's goose is cooked.

tris said...

Every thing that they do is cheap and nasty and utterly insulting to the public.