tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post5855492500776135952..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Harriet Harman - More In SorrowTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-90501260185991349912015-07-13T18:45:24.215+01:002015-07-13T18:45:24.215+01:00I reckon that Harman might be cleverer than she se...I reckon that Harman might be cleverer than she seems, although I admit that that is setting the bar pretty low. She came up through the Hard Left, and you never quite lose that. She is of the same generation as Jeremy Corbyn, and in their early years in Parliament they were on all of the same sides. Deep down, in her heart of hearts...David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-59869492109709851412015-07-13T18:21:47.323+01:002015-07-13T18:21:47.323+01:00The time for political "games" and "...The time for political "games" and "manoeuvring" is long past.<br /><br />We've had all that garbage since Kinnock and his "dented shield" bollocks (Of course that was before he got off to Brussels as an EU Commissioner bleating, "I've been a good boy). The only two since Wilson who had even the semblance of a conscience were Foot and Smith. All the others have been chancers. Blair was outright evil, and so were and are all his tenth rate acolytes.<br /><br />Harman's behaviour doesn't surprise or dismay me in the least. She's what she's always been: New Labour, and rotten to the core with it. Shuffling around "tactically" with various votes is precisely what undermined the Labour Party in the first place. <br /><br />Stuff all that. And stuff the likes of Harman in the same file as Blair, Brown, Milburn, Darling and all the other corrupt hangers on. That's the same file containing everyone with "tory" stamped on their forehead.<br /><br />If this country is to avoid sliding into the same proto-fascist rat pit as the Yanks we need genuine, determined socialist policies, not the kind of deliberately half-arsed muck of the last generation. We can start by binning Harman, Kendall and Cooper all at the same time - leave them in place and matters will only get worse. Much worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-38282097543379243142015-07-13T17:56:58.771+01:002015-07-13T17:56:58.771+01:00Is Harriet playing a deeper game though? This feel...Is Harriet playing a deeper game though? This feels like it's designed to portray the two more central candidates for party leader as being further left than where the current leadership is, which can only help them with most of the faithful who oppose this bill. Given the near universal condemnation of the bill as well, isn't it showing whoever comes in and chooses to oppose it as being on the side of common sense, against the old party leadership which was clearly out of touch? <br />It's also potentially designed to cut into the support for Liz Kendall, rather than strengthening it; she now has to either back the current leaders who she's spent half her campaign slagging off, or show that she believes the same stuff as the other candidates who she's spent the other half slagging off. If Hazza favours one of the other three (probably Burnham or Cooper) this would obviously help them, or maybe she just doesn't want Kendall to win. <br />Thoughts?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com