We all know that Labour likes to waste taxpayers’ money, but we also know they like to breach the rules (you know, like ones relating to party funding). Imagine then the joy that must have gripped Brown and his increasingly beleaguered cronies upon realising that the Downing Street website afforded them, with the assistance of some compliant civil servant(s), the opportunity to do both.

The Downing Street website, like all government websites, is of course subject to the civil service rules pertaining to impartiality; meaning that government websites can’t be used for party political purposes. After all, it just wouldn’t be cricket to have the governing party using the public purse to promote themselves (something Miliblogger found difficult to cope with).

Labour though have apparently decided that the rules governing impartiality weren’t ever really meant to apply to them, and so the following can be found on the Downing Street site:

Promoting Labour

What exactly is the justification for using taxpayer money to drive traffic to the Labour Party website? Oh that’s right, Labour don’t need one.

Highest taxes in history? So what.

UPDATE:

A reader alerts me in the comments to the fact that when clicked the link to Brown’s “political speeches” on the Labour Party website actually brings you to Labour’s local elections site:

Vote Labour

You have to hand it to Labour, when they break a rule they really go for it; not content with simply using the public purse to promote the party they’ve taken it upon themselves to use the public purse to actively urge people to vote for them!