Oh look, the Labour Party is pledging not to get personal during the election campaign.
From the BBC:
Labour has vowed not to feature Prime Minister David Cameron on billboards ahead of the general election.
The party said it would focus on issues rather than personalities. and not use negative personal campaigning.
Its election strategist Douglas Alexander said the Conservatives were preparing to spread “fear and smear”.
This is in response to poorly photo-shopped Conservative posters of Ed Miliband costing up to Alex Salmond.
It’s always nice to see a pledge of positive campaigning, even if it does come from masters of the dark arts of the real, nasty, personal stuff. I mean, could this possibly be the same Labour Party who, just 9 months ago, devoted an entire Party Election Broadcast to doing a hatchet job on Nick Clegg? “The un-credible shrinking man” they called it. Stephen Tall gave a run down of the plot at the time: