Sticking the boot in

One of the things that makes politics such a great spectator sport is watching as people stick the boot in to one politician or another. It’s even more enjoyable when it’s someone as annoying as Harriet Harman on the receiving end.

GAFFE-PRONE Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman, derided for trying to snatch back Sir Fred Goodwin’s retirement package, has been branded a “hypocrite” after it emerged she is sitting on a taxpayer funded pension pot of £1.5million.

….the Leader of the House of Commons has amassed a small fortune in pension rights during her 27-year stint in Westminster, allowing her to retire next year with an annual pension of £50,000…….It means that Labour’s so-called “golden couple” are likely to rake in a joint retirement income of about £100,000 a year……Lord Matthew Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrats’ pensions spokesman who calculated Ms Harman’s retirement package for the Sunday Express, said: “She should accept the verdict of the court of public opinion and look at her own unaffordable fat cat pension pot. She will be a hypocrite if she doesn’t.”

Wonderful to watch, isn’t it?