Another election

The new dynamic team of Gordon "the Joker" Brown and Harriet "I've done it" Harman have served their 25 year apprenticeships in the Labour Party and have finally brought their vast experience and exciting new ideas to riotous applause and the vigorous enthusiasm of the public. Or possibly not.

Mrs Dromey Ms Harman has held most (shadow)/cabinet posts in the past 20 years, and been reshuffled out of them, yet I am hard-pressed to identify any success she may have had during that entire period. Or even any achievements. She - of course - sent her kids to fee-paying schools to the horror of the Labour Party, in true middle-class sycophantic style following the lead of Tony Blair. Then she cut benefits to lone parents, so she has a solid socialist pedigree behind her.

But will Gordon go to the country early to get a mandate for his leadership? In my view it is unlikely, but by putting the unctuous Douglas Alexander in charge of a potential campaign will keep the opponents on their toes. Gordon will be keeping all his options open, in the hope that a suitable moment will arise, before he is boxed into an end-of-term decision. At the moment, he will lose. Get rid of Blair and shed his memory, and he might win, but the act of holding the election may be what he needs to do to distance himself from Blair. That makes it a very much more difficult decision for him.