With all the drama surrounding dirty smears on the Internet, I was reminded of a bunch of blogs that appeared during the Lib Dem leadership election.

These blogs were pure smear – transparently so – that disappeared just as soon as they appeared. Huhne, especially, attracted blogs that condemned him for ‘marital problems’, his property portfolio and having ’5 houses’.

We never did find out who created those blogs, and it’s hard to say whether or not they had much – if any – effect. I wonder though… was Number 10 more afraid of Huhne or Clegg winning? Would a more militantly left Lib Dem Party been more of a threat to their core support? Or did they believe that Clegg might destabilise the Tories?

Now if someone could find out who was behind those sites …