THIS casual reference to Hitler and Labour in the same sentence is pretty pathetic. I’ll have more to say soon about this recent and nauseating trend for politicians of all parties to smear their opposition, but in the meantime, just consider what Bagshawe is saying:

Labour gave Formula 1 an exemption from the cigarette advertising ban. Eccleston said something stupid and vaguely positive about Hitler. Ergo… You see where she’s going with that?

This might be the kind of tactic Bagshawe’s political heroine thinks is fine, but it’s not. It stinks.