How will this play out?

Most of this post is taken from a comment that Tory Bear left over at

Pooran Ponders

. It's definitely one to keep an eye on. Although TB often disagrees with a lot of what Neil Pooran, a student journo to whom TB became a bit of a rent-a-quote in the last year, argues, his blog is well written and often very witty.

Mr Pooran

pondered

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"If you'd only read the headlines today you'd have thought that Hazel Blears had stormed into Gordon Brown's office, grabbed him by the tie and repeatedly banged his head against his desk while screaming about 'lamentable failures' as shocked No. 10 cleaning staff look on in horror."

This may be true, but it's a slow news weekend. Also interesting to note that it has only been those formerly close to the Blarite wing that have actually written such articles. Byers and Clarke are the ones pulling the strings on this. They already have an "operation" up and running, (ie a lot of chat of BlackBerry Messenger.) The Hazel piece didn't have to say much, it was like throwing a steak into a bear pit. The media jumped on it and it was deliberately dropped into a slow news weekend so it would run and run, circa "Smear-gate". They are shaking the branch and waiting to see who will fall out of the tree and join their little camp.

Straight after the June election thumping, they will present Gordon with a letter signed by the very people they are recruiting now...