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  Courtesy Guardian..................
  
  The lobbying row has given David Cameron a very tricky dilemma
  
  As a lobbyist, I can see Lynton Crosby's attraction. But retaining him could cause the PM huge damage
  
  David Cameron's key adviser Lynton Crosby. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Guardian
  
  When the prime minister made his now infamous comments that lobbying was the next great scandal
  
  waiting to happen, I doubt he thought he was talking about himself. Yet, boomerang-like, the issue
  
  has come back and hit him between the eyes. On the boomerang are written two words: Lynton Crosby.
  
  Lobbying is controversial for two reasons. The first concerns the actions of a number of greedy
  
  and rather silly politicians who have been the victims of sting operations by journalists posing
  
  as lobbyists. The second concerns the commercial interests of the PM's key adviser Crosby.
  
  The government's panicked response to a scandal not involving any real lobbyists has been the
  
  lobbying bill, potentially one of the worst pieces of legislation since the Dangerous Dogs Act.
  
  It has been widely condemned. Only a tiny percentage of the so-called lobbying industry will be
  
  covered by the bill, and in-house lobbyists are excluded.

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