Whereas the fact that the LibDems adopted a candidate for Mayor of London who in a previous (Tory) incarnation had driven round Blackburn with a megaphone broadcasting, "Don't vote for Straw, he's a Jew"* barely raised a ripple in either social or mainstream media.

*I can think of many reasons not to vote for Jack Straw, one of them being that he instituted police road blocks breathalysing everyone driving out of Blackburn one Christmas, which is an appalling example of executive overreach, but hers was not one I can endorse.