Tory tactics

The Tories seem to be making a bit of habit of getting into trouble in the campaign so far.

First dear Michael got his crime figures wrong:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/oxfordshire/archive/2005/03/22/TOPNEWS0ZM.html

Then the Winchester Tory candidate got into trouble over a website:

http://www.thisiswinchester.co.uk/hampshire/echowinchester/news/ECHOWINCHESTER_NEWS_NEWS5.html

And the Tory campaign in Guildford is accused of racism:

http://www.surreyad.co.uk/news/index.html?article15090

And Ed Matts (an amusing chap - I remember him telling me how he wa definitely winning Oxford West & Abingdon and that my County seat was a gonner at the last election) is in hot water in Dorset:

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=628733&host=3&dir=62

And then it's back to dear Michael again - and this time it's MRSA figures that he is exagerating:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4449681.stm

I suppose you can't criticise these hapless PPCs - they are clearly just following the leadership line;-)

(And this is the guy who says Blair can't be trusted!)