Labour email blunder

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By Joe Murphy, Political Editor, Evening Standard
8 February 2005
Alastair Campbell is at the centre of a row after an obscene outburst aimed at BBC journalists.

He sent an email telling Newsnight to "f*** off... you t***s" after it probed his role in Labour's controversial campaign posters. The message came after the Standard revealed that Mr Campbell was being blamed by the party's advertising agency for the internet posters.

They showed Michael Howard as "Fagin" and as a flying pig and were branded anti-Semitic before being withdrawn. After Newsnightthe BBC's flagship current affairs programme, followed up the story they received the email apparently written in a fury by Mr Campbell.

The message by the former spin chief and now election strategy supremo was littered with grammatical and punctuation errors. It referred to Trevor Beattie, the head of advertising agency TBWA. It read: "Just spoke to trev. think tbwa shd give statement to newsnight saying party and agency work together well and nobody here has spoken to standard.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16446130?source=Evening%20Standard

MAYBE it was meant to go to General Pinochet, or even Junior over at the WH.....

[Richard Steele]

1. What are "t***s"?

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2. Tosser. NorthLondonSpeak for wanker....

??

[Stockholm]

3. Think its the popular version of mammary glands... n/t

[Mr Creosote]

4. Nah

twats.

innit?

[AP]

5. probably "twats"