Harman baffled about interest rates

MorganEx-Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan 'luvs' Gordon Brown and told the BBCs Daily Politics show with Andrew Neil that super saviour 'Flash' Gordon was precisely the man to steer the country through the economic meltdown.

He told Neil that it wasn't down to Gordon that Britain was in this financial mess - but it was greedy arrogant bankers to blame. 

Morgan was on the show to remind everyone that climate change was still an important issue - despite people worrying about their food, heating and fuel bills, and said that everyone should be doing their bit for the environment.

"If everyone chips in a pound, it soon adds up to a few million quid," he said.

He also said that he thought recession was in a way a good thing as people would cut back on certain things, such as consuming less and thinking more about their electricity.

Morgan's interview came after former Tory leader William Hague and Harriet Harman battled it out in the Commons over the economy.

Harman told MPs that Gordon and his sidekick Alistair Darling were taking action to ensure Britain's economy was steered out of the red.

"We are not complacent," she said as she tried to reassure MPs over the crisis regarding worrying figures revealing that unemployment has reached £1.72 million  - up by 300,000.

But William Hague got right down to business and asked Harman, who was sitting in Superman's seat for the third time, a joke used at the beginning by a backbencher, what the government were doing to help the 'real' economy?

She said the government were going to be pumping a whopping £100 million to help those who face the prospect of losing their job, and they would help those on lower wages.

She also said those on higher earnings should show a little restraint, in these tough times.

Harman warned Hague not to write off the British economy, something which Hague denied.

Hague joked at the end of his six questions that the famous Brown/Blair catchphrase No more boom and bust was one of the most foolish claims to have been made by a British prime minister.

Liberal Democrat stand in Vince Cable, asked if Labour were going to show the same sympathy to those facing redundancy in terms of being given 'bailout' help, just like the bankers were when the government bailed them out of a hole.

Cable said that what people were really wanting at this time was not tough words, but further cuts in interest rates.

Harman was baffled and admitted she did not know what Cable was talking about when it came to interest rates.

Well Harriet, if you don't know, then nobody knows...

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