Mr Harman Goes to Westminster?

[Barman]

And so it has come to pass. Jack Dromey looks as if he will get the Labour nomination for Birmingham Erdington. He's on a shortlist of four. But strangely, none of them are women. I'm sure Labour Party chairman and equality spokesperson Harriet Dromey Harman will have something to say about that.

Or then again, not.

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What the fuck? 

[Uncle Mort]

Obviously the best man person for the job. 

[Barman]

Obviously the best man person for the job. 

Farcical isn't it....? 

[Uncle Mort]

absolutely!

I take it Birmingham Erdington is a safe Labour seat.

[Barman]

absolutely!

I take it Birmingham Erdington is a safe Labour seat.

Oh yes, completely safe...

Which is why (according to the rulze) it should have an all-female short list...

The vacancy was created after Si?n Simon announced this month he will leave Parliament to seek the ? as-yet non-existent ? post of Mayor of Birmingham.

Erdington is one of Labour?s safest seats. Mr Simon held it with a majority of 9,654 at the last general election.

Labour?s National Executive Committee often insists that safe Labour seats must select candidates from all-women shortlists. Miss Harman, a member of the NEC, has been an enthusiastic backer of such lists.

However, the NEC ruled that Erdington would not have an all-women shortlist. Miss Harman is understood to have been absent from the meeting where the seat was debated.

[Uncle Mort]

Miss Harman is understood to have been absent from the meeting where the seat was debated.

How convienent. 

[Barman]

Miss Harman is understood to have been absent from the meeting where the seat was debated.

How convienent. 

Indeed...