The Nasty Party is back. Bigtime.

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/18/david-cameron-appoints-lynton-crosby

Maybe they should headhunt Karl Rove as his deputy?

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

1. HopeNotHate on the subject

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/article/2344/the-conservatives-race-problem

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. Bring it on

The race-baiting strategy failed to remove a politically-damaged Blair government with a disenfranchised core support.

I'm quite happy for the electorate to see what true blue colours look like.

[LeftishBrit]

3. I agree that crude race-baiting is unlikely to work

Anyone who would be influenced by such strategies has already been influenced. The tabloids are full of it, and have been so for a long time.

But slimy Karl Rove/ Lee Atwater/ 'swiftboating' tactics on a somewhat more sophisticated level could achieve something unpleasant under the wrong circumstances.

Ian Birrell - one of the very few Conservatives who occasionally says something somewhat reasonable - wrote the following about Crosby, which at any rate counteracts the idea that he is some sort of electoral public-relations Superman:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/lynton-crosby-is-a-disastrous-signing-for-the-tories-8327050.html