Red Ed thinks it is a smear to highlight the fact that Rev Flowers was a Labour councillor.
Red Ed thinks it is a smear to highlight the fact that Ed Balls was given £50k by the Co-Op (a donation which Rev Flowers says he arranged).
Red Ed thinks it is a smear to highlight the fact that Red Ed put Paul Flowers on his finance and industry advisory board.
These are not smears. They are facts.
If the Tories have any sense, they will repeat them ad nauseum. Every single time they go on a news channel or give an interview, they should draw the public's attention to the close ties between the very top of the Labour establishment, the disgraced Co-Op bank, and the quite disgusting Rev Flowers.