The Woolas factor

Labour backbenchers don't get it. The law - passed by MPs - says you can't tell straight lies about an election opponent.

That's what the court found Woolas did. How would these smug incumbents feel if they were defeated in their re-elections by an opponent's lie?

And what of the electors taken in by a lie? Is there to be no redress for them?

No, the first priority of these blinkered inadequates is to protect one of their own who was never up to his ministerial job anyway.

An unpleasant but instructive sight.