It starts with a low fever but over the next months will become rampant and out of control – general election campaigning is contagious and upon both us & Downing Street like a dose of political swine flu.
Soon we will all be begging for a vaccination as kills are notched up on political belts. Ex head of News of the World and Tory head of comms, Andy Coulson, is the current victim of this soon to spread viral campaign. As momentum grows and the police start fully investigating the bugging claims one wonders where this will end.
If the superstars decide that the spying on them was an obvious breach of human rights and start a class action Murdoch could rue the day he got involved with British media. Celebrities, politicians and chiefs like Elle Macpherson, John Prescott and Max Clifford have enough financial clout to ensure that the next scalp could even be the News of the World itself.
And all this comes as a possible revenge attack from Labour for the recent head of Labour’s Damian McBride demise over email slurs against senior Tories.
From now until May next year, if Gordon Brown waits to the bitter end to go to the country, this clash will become even fiercer. Ten months away and the fever is only just hotting up…
Last election there was no Twitter, no Facebook and no real internet viral campaigning – this time they will mean that election fever will be so in our face we will be begging for mercy.
Casualties? Well, McBride and possibly Coulson might be wondering what has hit them. News of the World is probably hoping this is a simple sore throat. The next few weeks will see if they’ve just caught a political cold or are suffering the potential fatal effects of full blown election campaigning.
