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Stewart Lee

Was no gravestone left unturned to smear Keir?

Illustration by David Foldvari.
Illustration by David Foldvari. Illustration: David Foldvari/The Observer

Frank Dobson, the former Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, is dead. And yet his corpse seems to have been reanimated, purely to discredit the Labour party, at the incompetent behest of the bleary late night Tory disinformation-sluice Nadine Dorries.

The Keirgate Beergate confusion campaign, by the Conservatives and their slave journalists, attempts to associate Starmer in the public mind with lockdown breaches by simple front-page repetition of unfounded accusations. Its purpose is to distract from the government’s own well-documented and proved Partygate crimes and its broader ethical, moral, financial, social and administrative failings. It’s like trying to cover up the Great Train Robbery by pointing out that someone else somewhere else once said the word “train”. The best endgame for the fridge-dweller-in-chief is the criminally misinformed check-in woman at the hotel in Tunbridge Wells saying resignedly: “They’re all as bad as each other” when I ask her if she’ll be voting in the local elections. Job done!

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