Harridan Harperson mass Labour outreach project....
Some excitement about the (weirdly un-bylined) piece on the Daily Mail website declaring Harriet Harman is "campaigning to promote herself as a stand-in Prime Minister should Mr Brown be forced out." The Daily Mail understands that MPs acting on Miss Harman's behalf have approached backbenchers in recent weeks to -*test*-('") her popularity as a possible leader. Her office say "she meets people all the time and that will continue". But should Gordon be forced out suddenly, she would - under Labour Party rules - be the automatic stand in, a la Vince Cable. And the 30-minute preview trailer is out this week: with Gordo in Japan, it's her chance to shine at the Dispatch Box in this week's Wednesday lunchtime deputy slapdown. People can snigger behind their hands, but something is going on. Not only does there seem to be a 'discrete approach' strategy outlined above, but Team Harriet recently carried out a "survey" of Constituency chair/secretaries. Just to find out how they thought she was doing as their deputy leader mind, not laying the ground for any campaign of course. Local parties were asked whether she had the right priorities for the party, what the central party could do to more improve communications etc. "I guess HH would just say thats doing her job, but if you add to other things going on, it looks a bit iffy," said a source. http://timesonline.typepad.com/politics/2008/07/harriet-harman.html If there's one person in Labour who could make a worse and less popular PM than Gormless, it's Harridan. Fingers crossed then!
Some excitement about the (weirdly un-bylined) piece on the Daily Mail website declaring Harriet Harman is "campaigning to promote herself as a stand-in Prime Minister should Mr Brown be forced out." The Daily Mail understands that MPs acting on Miss Harman's behalf have approached backbenchers in recent weeks to -*test*-('") her popularity as a possible leader. Her office say "she meets people all the time and that will continue". But should Gordon be forced out suddenly, she would - under Labour Party rules - be the automatic stand in, a la Vince Cable. And the 30-minute preview trailer is out this week: with Gordo in Japan, it's her chance to shine at the Dispatch Box in this week's Wednesday lunchtime deputy slapdown. People can snigger behind their hands, but something is going on. Not only does there seem to be a 'discrete approach' strategy outlined above, but Team Harriet recently carried out a "survey" of Constituency chair/secretaries. Just to find out how they thought she was doing as their deputy leader mind, not laying the ground for any campaign of course. Local parties were asked whether she had the right priorities for the party, what the central party could do to more improve communications etc. "I guess HH would just say thats doing her job, but if you add to other things going on, it looks a bit iffy," said a source. http://timesonline.typepad.com/politics/2008/07/harriet-harman.html If there's one person in Labour who could make a worse and less popular PM than Gormless, it's Harridan. Fingers crossed then!