Crazed email skullduggery blowing out gaskets in British government

*Holy mackerel, look at this. Those habits of backstabbing centipede intrigue… we’re literally watching a political party structure devolve into a covert hacker network and sting itself to death.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/04/gordon-brown-rebel-plot-purnell-resigns

“The resignation of cabinet minister James Purnell from the government changed everything. Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a “peasants’ revolt”, a cohort without in