SPIN DOCTORS NEED EMERGENCY TREATMENT

For my sins, I spent a fair few years working for the Government. I've even done the odd bit of PR ( pre New Labour days) for the Party. Frankly, whoever is churning out the kind of drivel I quote below should be ashamed of themselves. And so should the senior staff who are presumably clearing it. I mean, do they think we have an average mental age of 10 or what? It would appear so.........
The particularly naff bits include awful adjectives, cringeworthy alliteration, terrible grammatical errors and crass cliches ie hard -working families - delivering the goods - which mean absolutely nothing. Frankly, this stuff is an insult to the intelligence. Bring back Labour Weekly - it might have been boring, but at least it was political.

Dear Subscriber
After an uplifting weekend at Spring Conference in Birmingham, Labour have left renewed, confident and ready to take the fight to Cameron's Tories on May 1st .
From the opening session with Hazel to Harriet's final speech, all of our team really delivered the goods.
And Gordon's speech - "A common purpose for the age of ambition" - really summed up why I'm Labour; so that we can build a society in which all individuals, no matter wealth, race, colour, creed or religion have the opportunity to go as far as their talents can take them.
Gordon set out how Labour will continue to deliver for hard working families across the length and breadth of the country and set us on the right foot for victory in May.
But modern campaigning costs a lot and to deliver all that we need to, we need your help now.
Please help us fight by contributing £5 now.
The Tories are flooding cash in left, right and centre ( the only political bit!) to place Boris Johnson in the Mayor's office and to stop many of our hardworking councillors doing what they do best - serving their communities.
If we drop our guard now it'll be the weakest of our society that suffer - with your help we can stop this.
I believe that we are stronger when we work together.
By acting together, by building on the momentum from our Spring Conference and contributing to our campaign funds we can make a real difference.
And just think about how much Britain has improved over the past ten years - let's not risk this progress for a fiver.

Thank you and best wishes.
Alicia Kennedy, Deputy General Secretary