Harriet Harman has just appeared on Today, back-pedalling like fury, and denying absolutely that she cherishes any personal leadership ambitions whatever – even if Alan Johnson throws his hat in the ring. We’ll see.
She also asserted, remarkably firmly and apparently seriously, that there was unity within the party.
When it was put to her by a quizzical John Humphrys that Hazel Blears’s Observer piece was hardly a ringing endorsement for Gordon Brown, Harman replied that Blears had denied that ringingly, too.
Today’s Guardian reports the terms of Blears’s “ringing denial”:
Blears said her description of a “lamentable” failure by the government to get its message across had been an attack on all of her colleagues, not just Brown.
I’m sure that will go down really well around the cabinet table.
They say something sensible. They admit the country is in mess and that Brown it the primary cause, but back off before the public can get behind them to make a change. Clearly the McBride assassination squad must still up and running.
Has not this government passed enough laws on stalking and harassment for the police to be brought in to investigate a level of intimidation that is corrupting our system of government.
Any similarity between the black farce being played out in the Cabinet and the last days of Stalin are, of course, entirely co-incidental.
New Labour is finally coming apart at the seems. The problem is, whilst they are bickering and finger pointing, who is running the country. Talk about self-interest.
Yes. Tell me, if I can persuade the lads and lasses at The Boathouse here in Rhos on Sea to stump up £3.52 between us, can you forward plugs for Messrs Harman, Jowell and Blears, to add to the 88p one the taxpayers have already provided for Ms Smith?
Roll on man only shortlists.
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