There there dear

How that old windbag Harriet Harman must have relished the PM telling Angela Eagle to 'calm down dear' across the floor of the house. Man hating Harman has been starved of opportunities since the 1980's to really get worked up about lesbians, bisexuals, transvestites, homosexuals, sexism, equal ops and all the other crap she and her loony left mob used to ram down our throats on a regular basis - until people got bored and stopped listening.

And then along came the likes of Ms Eagle, taking up the baton of equality and taking it to places Harman could only dream of - civil partnerships for one. Eagle is one of the new breed of leftie, a bit more pragmatic and measured than her predecessors, smoother round the edges, a bit like Ben Bradshaw. Even Eagle herself admitted she was not really offended by the PM's quip - at which point you could almost hear Harman wretching over her sandals.

The truth of the matter is, although being a politician she would never admit it, but in private, Angela Eagle was probably more offended, incensed even, by Ed Balls coming over all blokey mounting his white charger and riding to the defence of a weak and defenceless woman in distress, screaming at the PM 'apologise, apologise!' 

Gagging for it

In 2003 super injunctions were all good news for the career and marital aspirations of the BBC Political Editor Andrew Marr. His gagging order allowed him to re-build his relationship with the wife he cheated on, get around to having a DNA paternity test proving his lovers' child was not his and forge a new more lucrative career writing books and programmes for the BBC, safe in the knowledge his trusted and respected fellow journalists could do nothing to expose the scandal that would surely have derailed the BBC's blossoming talent.

Some eight years down the line and with domestic affairs apparently all tickety-boo with the Marrs, the use of the same super injunctions according to Mr Marr "seems to be running out of control"

Bothered ?

Cherie Blair is said to be looking forward to watching the Royal wedding on TV

Just as well . . . . . . . .

Put the kettle on love

A review conducted by 120 legal busy bodies from Liberty into police performance at the recent TUC demonstration in London has come up with the truly staggering observation/criticism that the containment tactic known as ‘kettling’ was "under near constant consideration" when potential trouble spots emerged. 

Bears apparently crap in the woods as well Shami

Duffed up

Remember April 28th last year ?  Gillian Duffy was on her way to buy a loaf of sliced white and a pint of milk, minding her own business when Gordon Brown’s goons decided she would be ideal election fodder, a nailed on certainty to provide the ailing PM with a much needed feel good factor live on TV. The rest is history

In a sure sign of how desperately devoid of ideas the current Labour party PR machine must be, having watched her unwittingly torpedo the hapless PM almost a year ago, some cynical idiot thought Mrs Duffy might be good to go again for a bit more political demolition work – only this time properly rehearsed and ridiculously stage managed with Nick Clegg the designated target, presumably expected to suffer the same fate as Gordon.

Last years episode involving Duffy proved once and for all that the psychologically flawed Brown lacked the most basic and fundamental ability to actually speak to the public without a script and spin doctor to hand. What followed afterwards inside the car merely cemented that same public’s opinion in that he had quite simply been ruthlessly exposed as being out of his depth.  

Nick Clegg may not be the most popular politician at the moment in an unpopular coalition but if this is the best Milliband’s team can come up with by way of political cut and thrust – Mr Clegg can sleep easily safe in the knowledge Ed is firing blanks.  

PR disaster in Manchester

Man Utd's new shirt sponsors ecstatic with the timing of their new 5 year deal