Tom Harris MP is threatening to abandon blogging.
He posted the following on Saturday...
So if you hate this blog and you have a Labour MP, persuade him/her to vote for me in the Shadow Cabinet elections.
The Fact Compiler has mixed views on this.
Tom would make an excellent member of the Shadow Cabinet and his communications skills combined with his moderate and reasoned stance on many issues would prove attractive to many floating voters at the next election.
However, were Tom elected to the Shadow Cabinet he would have to resign his membership of the Transport Select Committee. The loss of a former Transport Minister with first hand experience of the DfT's inner workings would inevitably reduce that Select Committee's ability to effectively hold the Department to account.
It also goes without saying that Tom's blog would be greatly missed.
So on balance Eye readers are invited to do all they can to keep Tom blogging (and Labour out of power).
Did you see what Eye did there?