OOOOOOH

Douglas Alexander lands a supposedly devastating blow on William Hague over the Libya mission:

"The British public are entitled to wonder whether, if some new neighbours moved into the foreign secretary’s street, he would introduce himself by ringing the doorbell or instead choose to climb over the fence in the middle of the night…"

What a ridiculous and shameful attempt to score banal points in a difficult situation.

D Alexander has not the faintest idea what the mission was, what other missions have been approved and are working well, and what is or is not likely to work in Libya’s chaotic circumstances.

Nor does he have the faintest idea about the operational reasons or constraints which led the government to approve the mission.

Nor is there the slightest reason to think that he would have done anything differently had he been Foreign Secretary.  

Yet he makes a cheap jokey shot, just to show how big and tough and clever he is.

Grotesque.