Torches and pitchforks at the ready

In case you've been living under a rock (or reading London Lite) for the past couple of days, you won't have failed to notice that there's a baying mob outside the front door of ol' Wendy Alexander.

Will she go? Maybe. The Tories want her out certainly as it's quite difficult to set off a domino effect when the first one resolutely refuses to yield. The meedja want her out as there's more scope to call for the heads of Harperson and Hain if she admits her culpability by her resignation. The Gord? Not so happy at the prospect by all accounts.

Dire as it appears, if during this afternoon's debate on party funding Labour manage to lob a few salvos back in the direction of the Tories and emphasise that people in glasshouses, well, they just shouldn't (*cough* Ashcroft *cough*), then she may hang on in spite of the frothing from the bloke who caused all the trouble by bunging her a tenner in the first place.

Oh, and do check out the picture the Beeb have chosen for the story. Amazing.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 4 Dec 2007 3:27 PM. Permalink