the tories getting on their high horse over this is well rich...
During the 1997 election I lived in a constituency where the Tory candidate basically went around the estates telling people that homosexuality was akin to bestiality and that the openly gay Labour candidate was a threat to their children and represented an attack on christianity..
Of course, Brown comes out pretty badly in this case esp given all the anti-spin guff he came out with before. Neverthless, the irony of course is that a lot of the dirt they've got on the tory front bench is well-known but probably impossible to prove now - the drugs, the whores, the adultery, the bumming at eton...
It's a dirty game and always will be
as ever, the cardinal rule is for the dark arts to be practised only in the dark...