Nu Labour's real legacy

Harriet Harman, trying to create a legacy for the Labour party that doesn't focus on their abysmal failures over the past 13 years:

Ms Harman said Labour's opponents would attack the party's record in government, but "we will not let them".

"For every child who, instead of being cooped up in a flat, is playing in a brand new children's centre, that is our legacy.

"For every patient who instead of waiting in pain is cared for by doctors and nurses in a brand new hospital, that is our legacy.

"For every villager in Africa whose life has been transformed by cancelling third world debt, that is our legacy."

Ummm, Harriet, the other parties have already been attacking your record in government. That's how you lost the election.

But let's rewrite her speech to make it a little more realistic:

For every child who emerges functionally illiterate from a school system crippled by Nu Labour meddling, that is your legacy.

For every patient who dies because the NHS refuses to give them the drugs that would save their lives, that is your legacy.

For every orphan, crippled person, or corpse who died at the hands of the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq or Afghanistan, that is your legacy.

For every troop killed or crippled because your government would not provide the equipment they needed to fight the war you created, that is your legacy.

For a country mired in debt because a idiotic government attempted to nationalise the banking sector, that is your legacy.

For every little loss of freedom that became so synonymous with the Labour government, that is your legacy.

A broken, bankrupt country stepping into the light uncertainly after 13 years of draconian Nu Labour misrule: Harriet Harman, that is your legacy.