twittergate

We're really not fans of Ed Miliband...but for goodness' sake, it was just a typo! Obviously. So why is it causing such a furore? Surely partly because of Diane Abbott's silly (and amazingly reckless) twitter comment - but the difference is that her tweet had intent (quite possibly not the intent under which it was taken*) not a mis-pressed vowel.

*Its reference to colonialism is surely irrelevant in context. Abbott, having worked so hard to try to stop people generalising based on race, must know this kind of comment is unacceptable. Not to mention career damaging when made on a vast public forum like twitter...