Richard Littlejohn column today - Miliband/Savile

[ThePhoenixRising]

I know AIBU to read an article by that man at all but my eye was caught by the headline today, where he says he'd rather let Jimmy Savile babysit his kids than have Ed Miliband as PM. Repeated in the article.

AIBU to think this goes too far even for the Daily Mail?

FirstWeTakeManhattan I would normally agree with you - the Mail are trolls and I very rarely start a thread about them. This might be my first, in fact, although I have participated in a few.

However this article, two days before the election scrapes the barrel of journalism and is designed not to create a shit storm, but to provide readers with a potentially very strong mental association between Labour and Savile (read: bad). Obvisouly he is not linking them in reality, but he is basically saying Labour are more evil, or however you want to see it, than Savile. Yes, it is a joke, but the association is there.

At the same time he dismisses Savile's victims by joking about them, making light of the issue.

Yes, it will get them attention, but if they can scrape the barrel this low, then we should know they will stop at nothing to get their agenda across. It's important that people see this.

I don't remember the economy being particularly healthy in the early to mid nineties - property market crash, recession.

irretating - thought so....but for peeps who may not have bothered to click on the link and thought 'oooh so Labour did cause the recession, the crisis, the plague, the great flood, the end of the world...'

Thatcher and Major triggered two 'crashes' between them - 1989 (remember?) and 1992.

The idea that the economy is 'safe' in Tories hands is the worst myth being pedalled.