Class war on Conservatives banned?

According to The Telegraph amongst other newspaper, "Stephen Carter, the Prime Minister's principal adviser, told the Cabinet that the attacks on the privileged background of Mr Cameron and George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, had to stop. Mr Carter caused consternation by referring to the two men as "Dave and George", saying they were "good guys". He said voters would be turned off by negative attacks on their upbringing." Many papers also reported that some of Gordon Brown's attack MPs such as Ed "so what" Balls and Ian Austin cold be reluctant to follow this instruction.

I see in the Sunday Mirror that their personal attacks on David Cameron continue. Following on from "bicyclegate" comes the "news" that he is accused of comparing his untidy four year old daughter "to someone who had "fallen out of a council flat"." The Mirror obviously think that attacking David Cameron's roots is going to win Labour votes at the next election; they also breathlessly tell us that "The former PR man lives in a £2million mortgage-free home in West London, and has a country house in Oxfordshire worth £1million." I wonder how many current and ex-Labour MPs are in a similar position? Shall we start with Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock and Peter Mandelson?

The personal attacks continue, "Mr Cameron spoke of the "huge gap" between homeowners like him and people in social housing. But Mr Cameron is far from the man of the people he likes to claim. He is descended from King William IV, making him a distant relative of the Queen. Wife Sam, 36, is the creative director of upmarket stationery company Smythson of Bond Street. Her stepfather is Viscount Astor and she is a direct descendant of Nell Gywn, mistress to Charles II."


Thankfully the readership of the Mirror is much reduced from its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s and I would imagine is mostly read by the sort of tribal Labour supporter that buys the paper out of habit. Mind you you can also get an idea of the readership they want by looking at the two lead articles on their news website today:

"Ashley and Cheryl Cole plan dream home to rebuild marriage"

"Heather Mills tried to pull Johnny Depp lookalike"


Serious political coverage to the front as always...