CLAPTRAP

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The lead election story on the BBC News website tonight is 'Election: Parties battle over family and crime plans'. This has three sub-headings:
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*****************Cuts questions
*****************'Toddler tax'
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The latter pair are direct quotes from Labour attacks on the Conservatives. 'Claptrap' immediately preceeds excerpts from a speech by David Cameron on the 'broken society'. It is a quote from Alan Johnson featured four paragraphs later, after the Cameron extracts (thus book-ending them)!
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Labour and Lib Dem spokesman "attack", "tell", "argue" and "say". Only the Conservatives have to "defend" themselves:
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In south London, Mr Cameron defended his depiction of British society as "broken".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8645508.stm

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A typical BBC article.