These are testing times, my friends. Testing, troubling, traumatic times. We need a steady hand on the tiller, a good head on the shoulders, a top steerer in the driving seat. We need…Harriet Harman. (Cue Benny Hill-style music).
Yes, the sign of quite how bad things have got inside the government is that people are seriously discussing a leadership bid by our Harriet, a politician whose biggest political achievement so far, other than her surprise victory as deputy PM, was to be photographed in a bullet-proof vest as she toured the war-zone in Peckham.
Harman was forced to release a statement denying that she had told colleagues following the Glasgow by-election defeat that ‘this is my moment’. But Harriet, it is! Your country needs you!
Others, sadly, do not share my enthusiasm for Harriet as PM. As the FT rather sniffly put it, ‘If Harriet Harman is the answer, then what is the question?’ Listen, you can’t keep talent down. Who better to lead us in these knife-infested times than a politician with the necessary protection?
Ready for action
