Harriet Harman's memory
I was about to write that Harriet Harman can only be either an idiot or a liar. Since it's long been clear that she is the former, I was willing to accept her word that she assumed Janet Kidd was kosher because she was a pre-existing donor to the Labour Party.
Until I watched her interview with Nick Robinson (link awaited). She says she has no idea how Hilary Benn knew that Kidd was a figleaf for Abrahams. OK, useless but believable of an idiot. And then, right at the end, she says she had never heard of Abrahams.
Come off it, Harriet, who are you trying to kid? Harriet Harman was integral to Labour's opposition milieu, and anyone around then would have run into David Abrahams, as I make clear below.
I realise now that it's not a question of whether she is an idiot or a liar. It is, of course, possible to be both.
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P Stroud
November 27th, 2007 8:29pmAnd all Brown offers is another couple of reviews that will cost the taxpayer millions. Why not bring in the police now and let them deal with the matter, though preferably not Sir Ian Blair.
Matthew Rawling
June 26th, 2008 1:03pmHarriet Harman's latest idea is to create a non-discriminatory policy about hiring more older people and females, which of course inherently discriminatory in nature. Please someone for god sakes get her out of the Labour party before she blows up an already sinking ship.