John O’Farrell takes a pasting for comments made in the 1980s but…

…some Conservatives had far worse to say.  For those of us who attended National Union of Students conferences in the early 80s, who could forget some of the choice stuff that the Federation of Conservative Students used to come out with?  I remember one FCS member coming to the podium and screaming “Hang Nelson Mandela”. And some of these FCS louts went on to become mainstream Conservative politicians – so a little less preaching from the right in the direction of John O’Farrell and his youthful indiscretions if you please.