Phil Woolas refused judicial review

Ex-immigration minister Phil Woolas has lost his first bid to overturn a court ruling that banned him from politics. He had a bit of a brass neck trying it in the first place. The election court that ruled against him last week did the right thing. Woolas tried every beastly trick to rubbish his Liberal Democrat opponent. He insinuated that Elwyn Watkins was gay because he was said to "live with his mother". An untrue statement. Equally untrue was saying he didn't live in the constituency, that he was in league with Muslim extremists.

Woolas was once a darling of the Labour Party for being a streetwise political terrier. That was then, and now is now. Now meaning that Harriet Harman has given him a public drubbing and said he is no longer wanted. But she screeched not a word when the offensive leaflets flooded Oldham East and Saddleworth. If anything there are other guilty types, but with election law the buck stops at Woolas. His agent, his party leadership and all those in his local entourage are what we long suspected. Hypocrites!

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