Clare Short

A few papers (here's one) noted over the weekend that a whispering campaign has been deployed to taint Clare Short's quite serious charges by suggesting that perhaps she's gone a bit barmy.

The Scum, by digging up this bucket of cold sick with a quick phone-poll of MPs, feel bold enough to come right out and say it. Today's Page 3 editorial is a whopper: Today Anna (22, from London) is delighted that Clare Short's barmy bid to ban Page 3 girls is doomed to fail. Anna said: "This shows what nonsense she has been spouting. Hopefully this poll will make her shut up at last. She should keep her prudish beliefs to herself and leave us alone."

Yes folks, you can safely ignore the crazy lady who wants to take your tits away and is telling such nasty stories about our PM.

The super soaraway Scum reveals the following on the facing page: RANTING Clare Short has been accused of treachery by Britain's top civil servant.... Last night, one critic even suggested she needed a PSYCHIATRIST while others labelled her "bitter" and said her credibility was zero.

Labour MP George Foulkes also backed this claim that it was her credibility "at rock bottom" and not Tony Blair's, but the final flourish (and a Cheek of the Week award) goes to Alastair 'fuck Gilligan' Campbell: "It’s very sad that people who have been in positions of authority now behave in a way that just reveals a bitterness that is very, very deep."