Think of all the things they would have dreaded being talked about while we busied ourselves on the cock up that was essentially a two-fold mistake.
Mistake one: the lack of up-front honesty in putting it out there from day one. Select him, I have no problem with it, what you did as a kid should not be a life sentence.
But it was always going to get discovered Uffindell himself said so, so front foot it.
Mistake two: the idiots in the selection process, including the Party President, should have told the right people. And the right people is not a flunky in the leaders office, it’s the leader themselves.
Those simple things would have avoided all this.
