Comments on: Did Harriet Harman blog her way to victory?

By: londonpatriot.org.uk

londonpatriot.org.uk — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:29:14 +0000

Before she became an MP, Harriet Harman was the legal officer in the late 1970s for the National Council for Civil Liberties. When Miss Harman joined NCCL in 1978, PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange, had already been affiliated for three years. Another group, Paedophile Action for Liberation, a Gay Liberation Front offshoot, had also been affiliated to NCCL until it was absorbed by PIE. PIE, which campaigned for adults to have sex legally with children, only broke off its relationship with NCCL when it went undercover in 1982, the same year that Harriet Harman left her NCCL post to become Member of Parliament for Peckham.
NCCL people were earlier involved in keeping the name of an NCCL council-member, Jonathan Walters, out of the People newspaper when it ran an exposé of Paedophile Action for Liberation, of which he was secretary, in 1975. The People still ran the story, but Walters was not named.
Even more extraordinary is the fact that a current Cabinet Minister was running the National Council of Civil Liberties at the time all this was going on.
The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Health, became General Secretary of NCCL in 1974. The very next year, 1975, NCCL invited the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation to affiliate. In the year after, 1976, the now-notorious paedophile Tom O’Carroll was invited to address the NCCL conference, which promptly voted to ‘deplore’ the use of chemical castration treatments for paedophiles.
Also in 1975, Patricia Hewitt joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, as a ‘straight’, in the same year that Keith Hose of the Paedophile Information Exchange addressed its second annual conference. Hose moved a motion of censure on the conference organising committee for ‘relegating paedophilia to ancillary status in conference.’ The motion was seconded by Trevor Locke, who just happened to be a member of the Executive Council of the NCCL. ‘An awareness and acceptance of the sexuality of children is an essential part of the liberation of the young homosexual,’ the motion went on. It was duly passed.
Jack Dromey, whom Harriet Harman married in 1982, and who is now Treasurer of the Labour Party, was also involved with the NCCL. He served on its Executive Committee from 1970 to 1979, so he was there when the decision to invite the two paedophile groups to affiliate was made. NCCL also set up a gay rights sub-committee at the same time, members of which included prominent paedophiles Peter Bremner (alias Roger Nash), Michael Burbidge, Keith Hose and Tom O’Carroll. And of course Walters and Locke were on the Executive.

By: Which Labour leadership contender has the best online presence? « Ellee Seymour MCIPR

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:34:52 +0000

[...] best online presence? By Ellee, on September 23rd, 2010 Three years ago I wrote a post asking if Harriet Harman blogged her way to victory as the Labour’s deputy leader as my analysis of campaign websites used by candidates back [...]

By: peter

peter — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:32:11 +0000

blogging has become a growing force in politics these years and I believe that the power of blogging will continue to increase. I like the perspective presented here and I appreciate the discussion.

By: Ellee Seymour - MCIPR, PRESS CONSULTANT, JOURNALIST, POLITICAL AND PR BLOGGER. » My Woman’s Hour plug

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:58:35 +0000

[...] which Hazel did – very badly – during the Labour Party deputy leadership in 2007. At the time, I described it as thus: "Hazel Blears’ blog was quite dreary and did not allow comments to be [...]

By: Harriet Harman on Data Security: Do as I say. | The Wardman Wire

Harriet Harman on Data Security: Do as I say. | The Wardman Wire — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:13:32 +0000

[...] while Ellee Seymour commented: [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:05:19 +0000

As someone who follows Harriet’s blog avidly, I can only wonder how the other candidates managed even worse. Sadly, the lovely Harriet backtracked on most of her commitments almost the moment she had been elected, and seems to be in total denial when it comes to her remarks about Iraq.
Still, she does seem to enjoy herself wandering round Britain meeting members of the public who sing Gordon Brown’s praises without reservation (where does she find them all?), it’s like a political blog equivalent of ‘Coast’.
There’s a video of paint drying on YouTube. That’s pretty interesting too, I’m told.

By: Ellee Seymour - MCIPR, PRESS CONSULTANT, JOURNALIST, POLITICAL AND PR BLOGGER. » Can Labour run an effective social media campaign?

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:04:17 +0000

[...] I seem to remember five of the six Labour Party deputy leadership candidates using blogs for their campaign, and the one I judged to be best became the winner. [...]

By: FlipC

FlipC — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:56:58 +0000

Well to quote a non-techie voter I know “I got all these promotional flyers and I only really recognised one person’s name”.

As for being side-stepped for deputy PM, as many commentators have asked “What’s the point of a deputy prime-minister?” If I recall correctly it’s not an official cabinet position so there’s nothing stopping HH from getting a different position without needing to feel slighted.

By: Helena, Left in London » Blog Archive » Bra med interna personvalskampanjer

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:23:40 +0000

[...] I går firades Harriet Harmans oväntade, men fantastiskt välförtjänta seger i valet till vice partiledare. Jag och Jon började jobba med Harriets hemsida i slutet av förra året och eftersom det är ganska många timmars arbete som har lagts ner (framför allt från Jons sida) är det förstås väldigt kul att läsa såna här kommentarer. [...]

By: Jeremy Jacobs

Jeremy Jacobs — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:09:11 +0000

Ms Smack. Are you mad Electro-Kevin?