If you want to badmouth someone, do it right

The Labour party in the UK has found itself in the middle of huge controversy due to the discovery of an email sent by one senior official, Damian McBride, to a blog associated with the party. This email apparently contained ideas to fabricate stories with false rumours about the opposition, including:

- That the opposition leader, David Cameron, had a sexually transmited disease (David Cameron is well know for his family values and one of his sons, who was severely disabled, died recently).

- That several embarassing photographs showing opposition Shadow Chancellor (a sort of opposition finance minister in the UK) existed and were about to be published (Osborne was photographed with a prostitute in 2005). These were said to include pictures of him "posing in a bra, knickers and suspenders" and "with his face 'blacked up'"

Now, my only comment is this: how stupid do you have to be to send these ideas to a mailing list of several people, and to actually leave these things in writing in the first place?!? We all know that politics is not exactly a clean game, and most likely all parties play as dirty as this or more. It is also likely that the  newspaper industry helps them spread unfounded rumours because it's good business, and the bloggers get more visits to their biased pages. But this was amateurish! What happened to having a quiet drink in an empty pub, writing the ideas down in a napkin and then burning it down? Didn't any of these muppets watch Mission Impossible and learnt from the "this message will self-distruct in 5 seconds" approach? Amateurs!