BLACK DOG: Dave gets the blame for downfall of Esther 

By BLACK DOG FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

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Friends of Tory ‘scouser’ Esther McVey say David Cameron should bear some of the blame for her seemingly inevitable defeat in her Wirral West seat. 

Feisty former TV presenter McVey complained of disgraceful ‘lynch the b****’ taunts by Labour after the PM made her a Welfare Minister.

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Feisty: Tory ‘scouser’ Esther McVey complained of taunts by Labour after David Cameron made her Welfare Minister

Feisty: Tory ‘scouser’ Esther McVey complained of taunts by Labour after David Cameron made her Welfare Minister

‘Esther was always going to have a tough time as our only MP in Merseyside,’ said a fellow Minister. 

‘Putting her in charge of defending benefits cuts was bound to go down badly.’

 

If David Cameron limps over the line on Thursday, the champagne bubbles will soon go flat for some of his Cabinet Ministers.

Asked who would be vulnerable to a post-Election clear-out, a senior Tory said: ‘Three or four may discover it is no accident that they have been kept out of sight during the campaign.’

Doesn’t bode well for Chris Grayling, Eric Pickles, Grant Shapps and Justine Greening.

 

ED PINCHES AN INCH IN DEBATES

Miliband was so nervous of being made to look small by Nicola Sturgeon in the TV debates that he demanded a higher lectern at their BBC ‘challengers’ showdown. The leaders’ ‘pulpits’ were set at the same height until Miliband asked for a few extra inches.

‘We were told he likes to lean his elbows on the lectern to make a point and would have looked a wally trying to do it bent over,’ says a Beeb insider. 

Former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who was convicted on Friday of assaulting two teenagers, once told Dog he had thumped ‘about 100 people’ and explained his blood-thirsty technique: ‘Headbutts, aim for the bridge of the nose because it’s soft. Then throw them to the ground and hit them.

‘If you stand over them and whack them again, that’s pretty much it. They put their hands up and the fight ends.’

Sounds like what the Scots Nats are about to do to Labour.

 

Ed Miliband has spent much of his career vowing to scrap the House of Lords – but if he wins on Thursday, he is expected to use it to provide an all-expenses paid, ermine-clad, soft landing for his Election chief Douglas Alexander and Scots Labour leader Jim Murphy. 

Both face losing their seats to the SNP electoral tsunami. Giving them Lords seats mean they can stay on Red Ed’s front bench. Democracy in action.

 

Welsh-born Tory peer Tristan Garel-Jones, a member of John Major’s Government, says it would be ‘suicide’ for Scotland or Wales to break away from the UK.

‘Eleven of the last 23 PMs have had Scottish or Welsh roots, from Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown and Lloyd George to James Callaghan,’ says Garel-Jones. ‘We’ve been running this country for more than a century – the English just haven’t noticed yet.’ 

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