First Darling now Harriet's on the offensive

Another remarkable intervention from a cabinet member this morning.A week after Alistair Darling's appearance in the Guardian,Harriet Harman pops up in the Times which reports that she

Ms Harman admits that the Government is suffering badly from the downturn. “When people feel that their lives are more of a struggle than they used to be, then that expresses itself in dissatisfaction with the Government

and continues

“The main reason why we are low in the polls is because people are facing difficult circumstances.” The Chancellor was, she believes, right to suggest that the global economic situation is worse than it has been for 60 years. “I could not disagree with anything that he said,” she said. “It is a very major external economic shock because of the coming together of the credit crunch and food and oil prices. We have got to act, and our actions have got to be particularly focused on those who cannot sit out the recession.”

She also adds as did Darling that the party has failed to get its mesaage across

“We have had to say something different from what we have been saying for the past ten years. We have had a message, which is, ‘Unemployment is getting lower, GDP is rising, you are continuing to feel that your prospects are sound' - and that last bit has changed. We need to have a different conversation with the country now.”

However one consoltain for Brown is that she thinks a new leader would be a distraction.
Some consulation you might feel in a week when the message again did not get across and the economic indicators continue to contradict his message.