So which is the 'nasty party'?

The Labour deputy leader of Sunderland City Council says on Twitter that she hopes Margaret Thatcher “burns in hell” and the Labour council insists yesterday that there would be no repercussions for the insult:

'A spokesman said: “There are still strong feelings in many parts of the country about events during Margaret Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister and Cllr Anderson has expressed her feelings.”

Council leader Paul Watson, leader of the Labour group, said: "It was an entirely personal comment that was attributed to her." '

Meanwhile Harriet Harman has called Danny Alexander a 'ginger rodent' in a speech to the Labour party's Scottish congress:

'In her speech, Ms Harman said many people who voted Lib Dem in May "believed that they were a progressive anti-Tory party".

She said they "woke up" after the coalition deal to see Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg with Tory prime minister David Cameron in the rose garden of Number 10 Downing Street.

The deputy Labour leader said there was "incredulity" at seeing Mr Alexander, a Scottish MP, becoming "the front-man for the Tory cuts".

"Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel," Ms Harman said.

"But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander."'

What lovely people and how appropriate that they reprsent such a poliical party that has been nasty to the country for so many years.