2010 (and I think I WILL say “twenty-ten”, if only in the interests of speed) starts with a hard frost and some cheering news.
The Telegraph reports that Harriet Harman will be one of the principal “faces” of Labour’s general election campaign. Harman, according to Labour strategists, “could prove important in reaching out to both women and middle England, two groups who are resistant to Gordon Brown”.
An interesting point of view. In my experience, no politician on either side of the divide is more likely to make the denizens of middle England, middle Wales or middle anywhere else foam at the mouth than the exquisitely correct Ms Harperson.
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Harriet has already commenced wooing middle England in typically incompetant Labour fashion by her proposed Equality Bill whereby fire fighting resources will be scaled down in affluent areas in favour of poor areas, where Labour logic says there is more likelyhood of domestic fires. Caused no doubt sometimes by drink drugs and the lack of responsibility of some living in publicly owned property.
They all need help, and Labour need the votes of those in Labour areas. Sod the idle rich. What a vote winner for middle England.
David, surely it’s quicker to type 2010 than twenty ten?
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda ichi a’ch teulu.
I used to like her when I was a teenager watching Question Time!!
Those were the days!!
Monty Slocombe, I think David means say in conversation.
It’s also worth noting, David, that “twenty-ten” surely is correct, since we refer to all previous centuries in the manner: “nineteen-ten”, and so on.
I’m female and I loathe the hypocritical champagne socialist. I have two sons who worked hard at school and have done OK for themselves (despite the feminised curriculum). Harman would happily see them discriminated against in the jobs market because they are white, male and middle class: one other reason why I detest her.