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In the scandal of “Red Rag” and made up political slurs directed at the Tories, of McBride, Draper, the Labour Party and Gordon Brown, the biggest losers are the last two and one might say that perhaps that is a well deserved poetic justice.

Whether Brown knew or not is in some ways, rather academic, he certainly won’t own up to it let alone issue a personal apology. The reality to quote a phrase from an article in today’s Independent “his secretive, sectarian and cabal-ridden style of government”, puts Downing Street and Gordon Brown himself, at the epicentre on this one.

Brown’s Achilles Heel

Whilst Chancellor of the Exchequer, Brown had an amazing ability to disappear from public view the moment anything got a bit sticky which earned him the soubriquet “McCavity Cat”. However in this case and even if he didn’t know, because of the type of man he is personally, such events as this are an inevitable consequence.

Indeed, because Brown is by nature so tribal in his outlook, if the “Red Rag” had got under way, he would have approved mightily whilst publicly denying any complicity in it and no doubt likening it to “Private Eye” and beyond his control. However, if it damaged the Tories or any member of the party and their families, he would have revelled in it all, not cared a jot and just considered it part and parcel of politics.

The Damage to Brown

The reality is that Brown himself is very damaged by this because to the average person and regardless of their political affiliations, it all rings just so true of the man as the public believe him to be, a rather nasty, sly and cowardly bully.

But it is all much more than that, the Labour Party has had its “attack teeth drawn” for the next election because any statements, accusations and such like that verge on “Personal Attacks” on David Cameron, his team and their families, will backfire big time on Labour. David Cameron is quite right to press Brown on this at this time if only to nail it down in the minds of the public at large amid a growing sea of Labour sleaze and scandal where by Spring 2010, it may be forgotten.

The Re-election Campaign

This is going to give the Labour Campaign Team a dreadful headache in trying to formulate a strategy with half a chance of minimising their inevitable loss. We can have little doubt given Labour’s disastrous period in Office under Blair which deteriorated rapidly under Gordon Brown, that such personal attacks were likely at the heart of their intended campaign.

How it would have worked is McBride would have ‘seeded’ these stories with favoured newspaper editors but citing “Red Rag” which would be at arms length from the Labour Party as the source of the gossip.

The aim would be to get the media asking the Conservatives questions that arise from these rumours so that their election campaign stalled because their Manifesto Pledges got sidelined and never talked about with the electorate. That the rumours were made up really didn’t matter because there are certainly large numbers of people who will believe: “There is no smoke without fire…”

Where to now Brown ?

This Government can hardly stand on its record of achievements, any previously claimed have all turned to dust long since.

As to saying that Cameron and his Team don’t have the necessary experience to run the Country: Did Brown see what was coming ? Did Brown listen to the IMF as long ago as 2002 concerning his policies, wasn’t Brown in charge when he ran the Country into the ground ? Based on Gordon Brown’s performance, a blindfolded kid playing “Stick the tail on the Donkey” is as qualified as he is.

As to “Our New Labour Policies”, we all know they just don’t have any, they ran out of steam certainly by the time Brown became Prime Minister. Besides which, they have so beggared the economy, they couldn’t afford any new policies anyway. Nil cost policies such as reducing the number of sitting MPs Cameron has already announced and Labour just can’t follow him on that one because – why didn’t they think of it ?

Brown and Labour are buggered and it shows, I am sure that there are more ‘stories’ yet to come of a similar nature, it is natural as power fades and the “body” starts to fade away, corruption and putrefaction set in and the stink rises.