HARRIET’S brief period in charge of the country seems to have been more successful than even she coud have hoped, if yesterday’s headline in The Daily Mail is anything to go by:
So was the description of Labour’s deputy leader as “Deputy PM” a mistake, wishful thinking (on the Mail’s part), or just an attempt to rile Peter Mandelson? I think we should be told.















Saturday 8 August 2009 at 10:38 am
Amused briefly by the presenter lady on BBC WM (I’m sure someone can remind me of her name) talking about Peter Mandelson running the country from his lilo overseas.
She seemed most incensed that the person who was nominally in charge was not an elected official and not even within the territory.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 11:06 am
Harman is one of those people who had private education and wants to deny a good education to everone else. She is one of those silver spoon people who has a guilt complex and a huge chip on her shoulder. No wonder the country is in the state it is with people like her running things.
Still only 9 more months of hell, We can then start re building the economy and country.
Just look at the mess Labour has made of things, it happens every time they are in power.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 11:06 am
You have to love the timing.
On Tuesday we have ‘triumph for democracy’ as an open primary is used to select a candidate for the first in Britain. On Friday we have Mr Harriet Harman to be dropped into safe seat.
Nice contrast.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 11:13 am
Watch out for flying handbags & stiletto heels.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 11:20 am
Tom, HH as annointed deputy would be the best present the Conservatives ever had. It’s even better than Foot’s manifesto.
Jack Dromey as a PPC will also have the Tory election team salivating. At the very best, it will be linked with all the other nepotisn cases, such as Erith, and his performance at Party Committee level will be reopened for analysis.
Tom, you are one of the few decent labour MP’s in office and have a lot to offer the Country. Grab a life peerage why you can.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 11:54 am
As She and the noble peer are away on their holidays neither is.
As your dear leader is also on his holidays who is in charge?
For such self important people did anyone notice they’ld gone, apart from the reduction in self aggrandisment and hot air?
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 2:18 pm
Hah! Jack Dormey gets a Labour ’safe seat’ (If there is such a thing) . . . who says Labour don’t DO nepotism. LOL
Labour! . . . it’s a SLEAZE thing!
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 3:48 pm
That would be the same Dromey who is the Labour Party treasurer who knew nothing about how their funds are derived? This then would be his reward for negligence or incompetence.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 4:00 pm
What’s in a title? Quite a lot if the title is ‘Holder of The Ashes’……..which I still hope we will be after The Oval.
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 7:54 pm
Of course Mr Dromey won his seat on merit.
Any other suggestion is of course to be deprecated..
No wonder there is no social mobility when Labour appoint their own relatives to cushy jobs. Rather like the aristocracy used to..
According to Sion Simon Labour ARE the new aristocracy and will rule for ever.. so that explains it.
I quote:
“That is a frightening responsibility. The young princes who now stride the parade ground with the confidence born of aristocratic schooling can never be afraid. They never have been. Like latter day Pushkins drilled in the elite academy of Brownian blitzkrieg, they are bursting with their sense of destiny. It’s not the Milibands, the Ballses or the Burnhams who are unconsciously nervous. This is the moment for which they were created. They are ready”
So forget democracy…
Saturday 8 August 2009 at 8:20 pm
“Labour ARE the new aristocracy and will rule for ever”
For at least the next 9 months, certainly. After that they’ll be scrounging around for directorships and lobbying positions to try to take advantage of what little influence and human capital they can provide post-landslide…
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