Chris Grayling gay row: dirty tricks or public service?
Initially, I've simply seen a number of references in the papers to uncertainties that the \"outing\" of Chris Grayling's talk about gay people and B&B s might have become part of a Work \"dirty tricks\" procedure. What a wrong-headed complaint if ever there was one, on all counts.
Are those that make such insurance claims suggesting that in some way Labour, or without a doubt the person who caught Grayling's comments on tape, was surreptitious or unjustified in having done so, and also in having desired them to have a larger audience?
Only if you come with this from a completely partial perspective and also regard the views of the most likely (however currently a little much less so) next house assistant as much better concealed, can you assume that. Only, that is, if you wish to shield him.
Is it dirty tricks to inform people the views of among the most possibly powerful individuals in the arrive at one of one of the most vital as well as delicate problems to many people, weeks before an election? Where are the dirty tricks?
Second, Tim Montgomerie has published a fascinating journal thing on Conservative Residence this morning increasing the possibility, though not advocating it, that Grayling may not get the home secretary's task because of the hassle. The trouble for David Camerom is that his darkness house secretary appears to stand totally by what he said, and to regard his statements as not just not an error, however completely defensible in the heat of an election campaign under which he will certainly be quite the guy in the spotlight.
That leaves Cameron having to answer whether he agrees with Grayling when he initially shows up at his first election interview. Difficult.
Where I do not agree with Tim in his extensively exceptional piece, though, is that this set will fizzle away from tomorrow. The response to the Onlooker tale on the Guardian site was substantial. The rage in the gay neighborhood is huge.
We are speaking about a large sector of the body politic here and it has some unfinished company with the \"new-look\" Tories. It would like to know what the Tory leader believes, and also will do, that will fix the wounds since his suppositional home assistant has actually placed his opinion on the document and shown no indication of backing down.
