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Article: Tom Richmond: Just what is the point of Harriet Harman?
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- May 10, 2008
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SO much for Harriet Harman - Gordon Brown's useless deputy -
promising to listen and learn.
Asked if she thought tax levels were too high, a grievance of
voters across the country, Harman declared - with typical contempt
for hardworking families struggling to make ends meets - that the
Government had to raise more money for schools and the NHS.
And then when it was put to her that the Prime Minister might
actually be the "problem", she described her boss as a "brilliant"
leader.
In doing so, Harman revealed the sham nature of Labour's promise
to learn from its mistakes. The Government is incapable of doing so.
But her procrastination also raised a more fundamental question;
namely what is ...