Starmer appoint Harman as his advisor on women and girls

Yes, I read it too, but I haven't found corroboration except that Sky News have stated it as well (February 2014)

I don’t think Gordon Brown was the answer even when it was his time

I’m a Labour activist (for my sins), and trying to explain to my local group why this is so problematic. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good sources about this?
With the best will in the world, why do you think Labour deserve your support?

Mine really was, and KS is still a plank

Wasn't his father a tool maker?
Very apt.

I think he wants to harden everyone who didn’t vote Labour this week into never doing so due to him.

Just bizarre how hard of hearing someone can be, it was a pretty big message of dislike.

"My father was a carpenter".

SionnachRuadh · Today 15:39 post above - quoted above mine as well.

It just sums it up for me - I agreed with rest of the post as well but those lines perfectly capture the man.

Dear Goddess, the man is a complete plank.

Despite having his arse kicked he still hasn’t got it- he’s still not listening - I’m starting to realise that he’s doing what he wants to do to the detriment of everyone else

Not sure which pp the bold part is from but so true.

Local elections - disastrous. Mostly due to Starmer loathing.

Ik a photo op with Gordon Brown should do it.

I'd read that but couldn't find the evidence (apart from it being a PIE demand).

That is almost exactly what I was thinking

What an amazing career arc.
Apologist for pedophiles when working to help the PIE in early/mid 70s
To outspoken culture warrior for trans activism to the point she has nothing to say about Phillipson's obfuscation on the SC ruling
To "women's and girls' champion" as Starmer's new Anti Misogyny expert.
There aren't enough boggles in the world to comprehend this.
A half-century grift at the heart of The Process.

Actually they were campaigning to reduce it to 10.

The electorate saying "we want change" and Starmer saying "I will bolster my position by appointing Labour grandees from 20 years ago" might be the most Starmer thing ever.

So very true.

I mean Harriet Harman in a role for women and children - it's just yet another poltical mistake.

It's like Polanski trying to shore up his standing with Green supporters by bringing back David Icke.

And it wouldn't completely surprise me if he did...

You could almost be excused for thinking this world is controlled by satanist paedophiles.

Aliens are real btw..

I don't know the answers to Labour's challenges, but I'm pretty sure there is no question to which "send for Gordon and Harriet" is the answer.

Particularly not for the large swathes of the electorate who will not have the foggiest idea who they are.

I think we all know very well.

She took a job with the NCCL, and certainly still worked there when they were affiliated with the PIE. Given the controversy surrounding them at the time it is completely inconceivable that she knew nothing. Starmer really ought to learn to pick his friends more carefully.

I’m a Labour activist (for my sins), and trying to explain to my local group why this is so problematic. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good sources about this?

At the time the NCCL were campaigning to reduce the age of consent to 14. Such was Harman's insight and concern to safeguard children. 🙄

I was just thinking about Sunak, when he couldn't think what else to do, bringing Cameron back to be Foreign Secretary. But Cameron was at least relatively recent, and given a proper job.

This government already has two actual ministers covering the VAWG brief, Jess Phillips (Home Office) and Alex Davies-Jones (MOJ). Creating this part-time unpaid advisory non-job for Harman is transparently nothing to do with the subject and everything to do with getting Harman inside the tent.

The electorate saying "we want change" and Starmer saying "I will bolster my position by appointing Labour grandees from 20 years ago" might be the most Starmer thing ever.

I don't know the answers to Labour's challenges, but I'm pretty sure there is no question to which "send for Gordon and Harriet" is the answer.

I am at least finding some amusement in the responses on X to this appointment.

ripx4nutmeg is on it today:

"After the disaster of unnecessarily appointing someone at the heart of the previous Labour government who had known links to paedophiles, it's a refreshing change that Starmer has now appointed Harriet Harman in a risk-free move that the electorate has been screaming for."