Engendering provocation

field

William Rees Mogg - predicted the forthcoming recession through the boom years of the 1990s and failed to spot it in 2008.

Wrong on nearly everything of importance - including this.

Chris Forte

I listen to Rees Mogg about as much as his esteemed colleague Simon Jenkins who consistently rehashes the same articles regarding the non-existence of Al Qaeda, the lack of a terrorist threat and how we should withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. Both of them are abysmal forecasters and should be ignored.

TomTom

Harriet Harman proves that British politics works on the familial principle rather than the competency approach. Related to Neville Chamberlain and the Longfords, and with St Paul's Girls School, means Harriet could always survive her own inadequacies.

Britain rewards failure with promotion if you are born in the right cradle, but scorns competency if you are not.

Harman is a nonentity in a country where being born into the elite guarantees elevated positions in the institutions no matter how incapable and fatuous one might be.

Without such a start in life Harriet would be an estate agent or temping secretary

Tiberius

Someone should give Jack some man-to-man advice...

Frank Pulley

>"Doubtless by the time G.Brown gets back from holiday, Harperson will have helped resolve the leadership crisis by ensuring that every man in the country is behind bars.<"

Rumble ... chuckle ... giggle ... smile!

Thanks Melanie.

Colin

She doesn't have the integrity or the talent to succeed as PM in today's climate.

blair/brown/new labour got away with it until recently because an unprecedented credit bubble masked the reality. As a result, they escaped proper, objective scrutiny on a whole range of subjects.

In any case, she'd have to call an immediate general election, which she'd lose, no matter what...

Stephen Rothbart

According to the Guardian, Labour want to lower the voting age to 16. So by imprisoning men, lowering the voting age and perhaps even giving sheep the vote, Harman hopes Labour can stay in power to carry on wrecking the economy, the childrens' education and ethnic harmony for another term.

Verity

>"Doubtless by the time G.Brown gets back from holiday, Harperson will have helped resolve the leadership crisis by ensuring that every man in the country is behind bars.<"

Or will have emigrated.

Why does Labour have so many abnormal people in it? Think of them, starting with Gordon Brown. Ed "So what?" Balls. Jacqui Smith. Harriet Harpic. The deeply creepy Jack Straw. Margaret Hodge. Tessa Jowell. Hazel Blears. Milibands. Gordon Brown.

Gruesome.

Peter Arnold

I think it would be an excellant idea for Harman to replace Gordon Brown. She represents the worst elements of new labour; the hectoring, interventionist, lecturing, humourless face of the liberal left. Her appointment would lead to landslide majority for the Tories to match Tony's of 1997.

Peter Arnold

I think it would be an excellant idea for Harman to replace Gordon Brown. She represents the worst elements of new labour; the hectoring, interventionist, lecturing, humourless face of the liberal left. Her appointment would lead to landslide majority for the Tories to match Tony's of 1997.

Herbert Thornton

Stephen Rothbart writes of Harriet Harman lowering the voting age to 16, imprisoning men, and perhaps even giving sheep the vote.
My own impression is that sheep already have the vote. Don't they?

mariner

I wonder if Harriet Harman, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, women are incapable of violence? There are several cases recently of the wife killing or attempting to kill their husbands, all they need to do now is claim they were victims of abuse and hey presto! They are indeed free to kill. There is no need to kill given the help women get to escape from violent marriages, so no excuse to kill either.

Nicholas

This woman Harmthenation is deeply barmy. Her ideas are deeply barmy. The men and women in her entourage should feel really ashamed at working for and supporting a woman who in public office is mad as a hatter.

Verity, spot on about Jack Straw. Deeply unpleasant indeed. All of them remind me of the Nazi crew.