On Sunday Stephen blogged about the behaviour of Caroline Righton, the Conservative candidate for St Austell & Newquay, whose campaign is being accused of faking a message about her Liberal Democrat opponent, Stephen Gilbert, in a botched smear attempt.
The story has also been taken up on quite a few other Lib Dem blogs so, bearing in mind that our readers often ask for more links through to stories on other Lib Dem blogs, here is a selection of the most recent posts:
- Matt Davies, who was quick out of the blocks with a comprehensive piece
- Alex Folkes, who rightly highlights that even if Caroline Righton did not personally author the message in question her failure to apologise or explain certainly is her direct responsibility
- Andrew Reeves, whose post has a comment containing the most curious piece of information that has come to light so far
- Chris Lovell, who highlights the silence from Tories about the affair
- Jeremy Rowe, he of the blog post with the scary photo
- Nich Starling, in typically robust form, highlighting how Caroline Righton recently promised to fight a “positive and honest campaign”
- and finally some chap called Mark
If I’ve missed any or a new one has appeared since I wrote this, do post up a comment with a link.
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