Draper And The Search For The Truth

So, first of all the e-mails didn't exist. Now they do exist, and they were "a bit juvenile and inappropriate" but also "brilliant and rather funny." Lord alone knows what they will be like tomorrow, when examples of them are actually published by the papers. The story will change again, no doubt. I really do hope that this is the last stand of the odious Derek Draper - someone who resembles Nu Labour's answer to Gollum as far as I can see - because keeping up with his ever changing stories is pretty much a full time job these days. 

Draper writes:

At the end of the day, though, the lesson is that we should leave tittle tattle and gossip to the right wing blogosphere. We on the left should concentrate on ideas, policy and campaigns, which is what LabourList, whatever is thrown at us, will continue to do

Yeah right, Derek, that isn't going to work anymore - if it ever worked in the first place. Draper and his piss-poor excuse for a blog act as a talking shop for second rate Labour party members and as an ill-conceived attack post against the Tories. Nothing more. Draper concentrating on ideas etc is like claiming that Draper is going to concentrate on the truth - because as this nasty little scandal shows, the truth for Nu Labour has nothing to do with the conventional definitions of the truth. Rather, the *truth* for Draper et al is a holding position - an attempt to minimise embarrassment between scandals.