Ladies and Gentlemen for your delectation I present.
Magnus Gardham and the Last Propaganda Crusade
More media support for Salmond
THE SNP election campaign looks set for a boost from Express Newspapers.
They have long flirted with Alex Salmond in their Scottish editions.
Initially that was the result of owner Richard Desmond's deep antipathy towards Gordon Brown; he thought supporting Salmond was a great wheeze in terms of winding up the former PM.
Now, though, it seems it's down to good old-fashioned wonga.
I'm told SNP donor Brian Souter has bought a huge number of papers to hand out free on his buses in the run-up to polling.
They'll include an SNP pull-out.
In the meantime, political hacks at the paper know what's expected of them...
Labour would never have received much sympathy from the normally Tory-supporting Express but the news is still a blow for Iain Gray, who has hardly any supportive voices in the media.
All this follows our revelations about News International coming under David Cameron's orders to campaign for an SNP victory.
The Sun's verdict today on the SNP's somewhat lacklustre manifesto is: "Eckstra special."
But more worrying for Labour will have been NI stablemate The Times' splash yesterday: "Double hit for Labour as policies are mocked."
It amounted to this: a disgruntled follow-up to the Record's exclusive on Iain Gray's call to end corroboration in rape cases combined with some rather manufactured hostile reaction to Labour's plans for more teachers.
But it shows which way the wind is blowing.
Here's the link to the article and the comments section. Which is priceless.
Magnus Gardham for being the English equivalent of Bill O'Reilly I salute you.
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