Well now we know, after weeks of speculation the replacement for John Prescott will be Harriet Harman. Thanks to the unnecessarily complex electoral system Labour use to elect their leaders Harriet Harman was not the first choice of most Labour MP’s and MEP’s and some of the views she has expressed during the campaign will sit uneasily alongside official Labour Party policy. Nevertheless, I wish them well in their new roles they certainly have a great deal of problems to deal with. In view of the fact that Gordon Brown has been behind some of the biggest failures of the last ten years I doubt we will see much improvement.
Over the weekend I have been out at a concert of songs performed by the Affetside Choir and today I have called in at the summer fairs at Chantlers Primary School and Bury Boys Grammar School, unfortunately the weather was anything but summery with torrential downpours interrupting proceedings on several occasions.