How Harriet Harman Might Save Gordon Brown

From a wonderfully predictable Telegraph article that suggests that Tony Blair opposes the income tax rise on the rich*:

But ambitious ministers such as Harriet Harman would almost certainly try to force a leadership contest. The Brown loyalist said: "If the results are bad, the prospect of a leadership contest, and Harriet winning, might stop people trying to force Gordon out."

Read that paragraph again, and marvel at it. So Labour MPs might not force a failed PM from office for fear of an even worse option getting into power. And who would that even worse option be? Why, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, of course.

That's now bad things are for the Labour party, and clear proof - if anyone needs clearer proof - that the leadership of that party is dismissed even by the party itself. 

I'm so glad we have another year of all this...

*Of course he does. He was all about the stealth taxes, that one.