The day ends on a sour note for Labour

skids

Is it December 25th already?

Ben Elford

Relief all round for Labour, then. Giving Blair more prominence would remind people what a mess he made of Britain; the commonly despised Harman can readily be disowned, and the less said about Labour's tired programme for the next few months, the better for Labour.

logdon

"I'm Harriet Harman, you know where to get hold of me", is denying it ever occurred.

She could have dealt with it as a fixed penalty and points but no. That would be accepting that she was fallible and that would never do, would it?

Could be interesting. It'll now end up in Court with witnesses, lawyers and all the rest. Plus the media attention.

Ben Elford

'A spokeswoman for Ms Harman said she "strongly refutes the allegations and will deny the charges".'

The spokeswoman might like to look up the definition of 'refute' before using the word in this way.

Graham Clark

Oh what a shame! At least it will put a stop (for a while) to his ambitions and social climbing to still be 'Something Very Important', all alleged of course.

Maybe soon it will be 'Something Big in the Vatican!'.

Holly ......

When you wish upon a star!!!!

Tom Pride

Hallelujah! The tide has truly turned. I hope it gets to Court after Election day when her and her sanctimonious, po-faced, self-righteous, morally superior, pompous, self-satisfied, self-justified, intolerant, unattractive, hypocritical middle class statists are ejected from office and unable to interfere with the justice process.

emil

Poor old Harriet undoing all the good work Labour did(n't do) for women's suffrage.

teledu

Harman. She obviously drives in the same way as her party govern. Selfishly and arrogantly, believing she and they are above the restraints that apply to others.

Andrew Hemsted (PPC Walthamstow)

Doesn't the attitude of Harriet Harman show the real attitude, arrogance and couldn't care less attitude to the general public of New Labour, all neatly summed up in one short sentence.

She may as well have said "Don't you know who I am. I am far too important to deal with the likes of you!!!"

Michael Booth

Herman Rumpy's got it with Baroness Ashton as High Rep.

In2minds

Nulabour has always misunderstood its role in the EU. Blair being dumped for a Belgian proves the UK counts for nothing. Does this mark the end of the EU-Nulabour love in?

Naomi Muse

Well, didn't they forget to charge her with leaving the scene of an accident without doing all the exchange of info?

On the Blair issue, he was supposed to be busy for the Quartet, so maybe he should achieve what the objective is on that for them before prospecting anyway.

Also, we need to elect a president if the EU has to have one, not have it divvied up over a large port by horse-trading prime ministers et al.

Bring us democracy!!

Paul D

The day ends on a sour note for Labour - not for me! Just got in from a long, tiring day and read this post and it ha positively cheered me up. Now - where is the corkscrew?

Tom Pride - very good, but Harperson would be mortified to be called middle-class. She's genuine aristocracy y'know!

EC

Who the hell is Lady Ashton? Margaret Beckett's younger sister?

May the farce be with you!

Holly ......

However the day ends on a SWEET note for millions of others.
This is Disney's version...
When you wish upon a star
Stick you fingers in the cookie jar
Think you will, but you won't get far
Our dreams come true.

While Blair wonders up & down
Having to be nice to a clown like Brown
When you wish upon a star
Our dreams come true.

We no longer listen to the likes of Balls
The end game is coming to the Labour trolls
When you wish upon a star
Our dreams come true.

Will Blair do a deal with Mandelbum
Whistle in delight at revenge on scum
When you wish upon a star
Our dreams come true.

And it's Friday tomorrow.....yay.

John Moss

Harman's sentence is likely to be fifteen years of "hard Labour".

Alan Scott

Fantastic result for the EU (from UK point of view): one nonentity as President, and another nonentity who has never been elected to anything (don't know about student politics) as Foreign whatever.
You couldn't, even as Michael Dobbs or Jeffrey Archer, fantasise it. Bloody marvellous.
It will of course make Obama's and Putin's and the Chinese fella's blood run cold.

Lee Jakeman

Harriet Harman has got the most slappable face in British politics.

What's this got to do with the article?

Nothing, really. Just thought I'd get it off my chest, being a white, Anglo-Saxon, protestant, heterosexual English male.

Occasional Ostrich

Tom Pride
November 19th, 2009 7:37pm

Middle class? Well, my world view places me somewhere in that broad ruck of people, and it definitely places her below me, whatever her origins or education.

Victor Southern

Harriet is no stranger to driving offences - it comes from being special.

Dorothy Wilson

I laughed out loud when I heard the news of Mrs Dromey. Any chance of a custodial?

Alex Creel

Since Lord Ahmed literally got away with murder - unless you consider 6 weeks inside a proper punishment - its no wonder Harperson thinks she's above the law. Now get Tony in the Hague and justice can be done all around

Alan Douglasa

"I'm Harriet Harman, you know where to get hold of me."

As we are all equal before the law, I wonder if I used these exact words on being stopped by plod, would I be believed ? I'm not aristocratic, nor a minister, not even female.

Alan Douglas

Moraymint

"The day ends on a sour note for Labour"

The WORLD is ending for some of us after 12 years of this shambles. I'm not interested in a difficult day for the Labour Party. The lot of them should be strung from lamposts.

Moraymint

... by the way. Let's keep in mind that Van Rompuy is a Bilderberger ... http://tinyurl.com/ylb7m77

The great project proceeds to plan. Democracy in Europe - such as it is - is being suffocated, slowly but surely.

If we don't rise up soon, we're all dead.

Nick

Curse of Brown strikes again

Yow Min Lye

New Labour has been driving the car of state without due care and attention for the last twelve years.

And as for mobile phones, I'm not sure who they have been having a conversation with whilst they have been doing it, but it hasn't been the great mass of ordinary British people.

JohnAnt

I was so pained to hear of the predicament of poor Ha...Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha!

Boudicca

It might be sour, but it's not sour enough.

What I want to hear is that the Lisbon Treaty is declared nul and void by a UK Court because Labour failed to keep its Manifesto Commitment; and Blair is summoned to The Hague to defend his actions on the run up and during the Iraq war.

That REALLY would be sour.

Boudicca

Hopefully, Ms Harman will be banned from driving - about the same time as Labour is kicked out of office and (if the good people of Peckham see sense) she needs alternative employment,.

Mirtha Tidville

So the day ends sourly for liebour.....lets hope they have many more of them then

Michael Booth

Anyone know what happened about the private prosecution of Jacqui Smith?

Ivan D

Yeah, sour beyond words. Can you imagine how depressed Brown must be to have gotten one of the two top jobs in the EU, and for the nominee of an essentially semi-detached member state, run by a fag-end regime, sponsoring a crony candidate, and ditching Global Player T Blair in the process. He'll laugh himself half to death more like.

Marbury

Can you imagine a Queen's Speech at this stage in the government's life that wouldn't have got a kicking in the press? Is its relative success or failure so entirely dependent on the next morning's papers? Why do you assume that Blair missing out on president is bad news for Labour (or good for Cameron)? This is thoughtless, knee-jerk, monotone stuff. "There'll probably be a few smiles in CCHQ tonight"...come on dude, you're too smart for this.

tjones

I love this "sour note" wording.

Do you mean sour as in a tax payer spending, bed hopping MP...MMMM don't you love the taste of Conservative Curry.

Number7

"Why wasn't she charged with leaving the scene of an accident?"

Because that is a much more serious charge - Possible custodial sentence - End of parliamentary career.

Good old Met - still supporting Zanuliebore.

mac

Hasn't Mr Starmer intervened yet to render Danegeld?

If HH appears in court there'll be po-faced wriggling on legal technicalities which will see her let off or receive the minimum sentence applicable.

Cue vilification of 'weak' magistrates. In reality, their worships will have precious little choice, hamstrung as they are by Straw's prescriptive, ideologically-inspired and money-saving 'sentencing guidelines'.

Julian

Will Harriett Harman be arrested, finger printed, and have her DNA taken?

As she denies that she was on her mobile phone when crashing, she will of course give up her itemised phone bill so the police can ask all those she called / called her around that time on that date what the thrust of the conversations were, and if any mention was made of a smash, and how she ended those calls. Surely she will cooperate with police enquiries, won't she?

Tom Pride

“Occasional Ostrich
November 19th, 2009 8:58pm
Middle class? Well, my world view places me somewhere in that broad ruck of people, and it definitely places her below me, whatever her origins or education.”

To clarify – Normally I try not to use middle or working class as I think we are moving more to an aspirational class and a welfare class. I used middle class here as a shorthand for “not working class as used to be”. I cannot bring myself to describe Ms Harman as aspirational.

To me there is an authenticity, sincerity, even a dignity to a person who started life working at the bottom end of the pile and who seeks to represent and assist those from whence they have come. Ms Harman is not one of those. She has not experienced that life but she instinctively knows what is best for others. In another time her self-righteous and sanctimonious desire to improve the lot of those beneath her in the manner she determines would have been channelled into missionary or voluntary work. But the State is the new god and it pays better.

Jepordy

Harman has allways thought she is above the law!! She is slowly destroying mens rights through derogation of our rights (Harman has lost the plot). I hope she gets taken to court and juistice is seen to be done, but i very much doubt it!!!!!

Tankus

November 19th, 2009 9:58pm Moraymint
"... by the way. Let's keep in mind that Van Rompuy is a Bilderberger ... "

Are they all masons as well ?

is Fraser a Mason ?