Harriet Harman and the Moral Low Ground

I love the way Harriet Harman is touting her supposed yet deeply unlikely loyalty to Gordon Brown as a good thing. Can you imagine any other profession where being loyal to a repeated failure and social misfit is a good thing? Can you imagine a group of pilots getting together and saying "he's very angry, probably drunk, struggling with mental illness and just plain can't fly, but we'll let him take the controls anyway?" Of course not. Just as well Brown doesn't have an important job. Like Prime Minister or something. 

But there is also a moral aspect to Harman's decision to back this horrendous cretin of a Prime Minister. Put simply, backing this government is morally repugnant act. Ironically, this makes Charles Clarke much more of a moral leader than Harman, but choosing to support either one of them is like being asked to choose between a dog turd and a piece of pigeon crap. Given the choice, you'd go with neither. But at least Clarke is ashamed to be part of a party that has the odious Gordon Brown as their leader. It is a tiny step in what would, for Clarke, be a jaw-droppingly long road to redemption. But at least he has made that small step

Harman is backing an unelected Prime Minister who stole the premiership, without recourse to the national ballot boxes, in an ersatz election with no opponent that would make the Soviet Union proud. But it is more than just that. This really is the government of thieves. They have stolen money through stealth taxes and now direct attacks on the bank accounts of the wealthy. They have plundered the national savings and left the cupboard not just bare, but falling apart with woodworm. They have taken civil liberties, and eaten them whole. Seldom before has a government cost its citizens more. To continue to support Gordon Brown - the very pinnacle and poster boy for this malign tumour on the brain of the country - is a contemptible act. 

So there we have it. By being loyal, Harman actually comes out as worse than if she knifed her boss in the back. Harriet Harman is morally repugnant - but we knew that already, didn't we?