<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar/14058325?origin\x3dhttp://croydonian.blogspot.com', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script>

Has David Cameron become the Nameless One for Labour?

Thursday, November 19, 2009
Listening to 'Today' this morning, I was struck by Harriet Harman's use of language - every time she had the opportunity to say 'David Cameron' she either used 'the Leader of the Conservative Party' or 'he'.

Clearly 'the Leader of the House' would have been heavily briefed ahead of her chat with Humphries, so I would suggest that it is now Labour's comms policy not to refer to Cameron by name, the reckoning being that the battle against Cameron the man is lost, and the better approach is, so to speak, to smear him as 'a Conservative'.  Either that, or he strikes such terror into them that they cannot bear to mention him by name.

Further documentation of outbreaks of this would be most welcome.

(This underwent alpha testing as a tweet, but I could not get it down to 140 characters)

Labels: , ,

posted by Croydonian

So much for Harman's denials

Monday, May 04, 2009
Betting markets are quite good at cutting through the, ahem, smelly stuff, and here's what they reckon at PaddyPower.com:


Odds unchanged from a few days ago, if memory serves, and HH still has the shortest odds. Far be it for me to interfere with the People's Party's death wish, but if they have any sense Brown will 'develop' some illness or other and Johnson will take the reins.

Labels: , ,

posted by Croydonian

And this week's brass neck award goes to....

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Harriet Harman. And come to that, the brass torso, arms, legs, head etc. Although I suspect she has feet of clay.

And for why?

Because of what she will say to the TUC later today, apparently:

""We have made great progress on tackling inequality but we know that inequality doesn't just come from your gender, race, sexual orientation or disability. What overarches all of these is where you live, your family background, your wealth and social class. To advance equality through our public policy, we need clarity of evidence and focus on the gaps in society and how they have changed over the last 10 years".

Is this the Harriet Harman, the Pauline and niece of the seventh Earl of Longford?

Yes it is.

Is this the Harriet Harman who sent her progeny to London Oratory and St Olave's Grammar, both a long way from the Harman / Dromey abode?

Yes it is.

I think she's a class traitor....

Labels: , ,

posted by Croydonian