Blears Poaches Harman's PPS

Hazel Blears is a woman who, when she makes you an offer, you don't refuse it. She's angered Harriet Harman, her rival for the Deputy paperclip collector Leadership, Harriet Harman by headhunting her PPS. The unbelievably named Robert Flello has jumped ship to become PPS to the little chipmunk, leaving Harman PPS-less. Quite what it says about Harman's qualities are probably best left to you to imagine, dear reader. What it says to me is that Mr Flello doesn't want to work for a woman who thinks the only reason she should become Deputy Leader is that she can put the letters 'f' and 'e' in front of the word male.

However, I'm sad to report that all is not trundling totally according to plan for the chipmunk. More and more Labour members are reported to be bemused by how Hazel Blears has managed to get their email addresses. Kerron Cross blogged about this yesterday and LabourHome is also covering the subject. People are putting two and two together and assuming that she must be getting the lists through her role as Labour chairman, something she has consistently denied she would do. I suspect the answer is that she has some very ingenious staffers who are compiling email addresses from many sources and spamming them. There's no law against it, but it may make as many enemies as it does friends.