Not smart

The Tories have just issued a weekend press release (pdf) listing 26 Gordon Brown gimmicks. Unfortunately they include school trips to Auschwitz on the grounds that the government hasn't funded them properly. I have since been listening to a string of press gallery colleagues patiently explaining to someone down the line at party HQ that a press release which links the death camp - the "Golgotha of the modern world," Pope JP called it - with the word "gimmick" is not smart, whatever the thinking behind it. Whoever they were talking to sounded slow taking the point.