Alicia Kennedy, Deputy General Secretary of the Labour Party, emails me with an important announcement:

This Saturday, 1 December, is our final National Campaign Day for 2007. And I was wondering if you would be able to join us to draw the year to a close with a huge campaigning event, so that we can start 2008 with a great team and momentum.

While I am not averse to the idea of door knocking and leafleting, folding and stuffing, running street stalls and, or even the dangerous area of fundraisers, the phrase “keeping one’s head down” comes to mind this week.

Given the luck the Brown government has had in office so far, campaigning in marginal constituencies should probably wait until after the plague of frogs, the asteroid strike on Wembley, and the war with Spain over Gibraltar have occurred. In any case, starting with a great team in 2008 must be a clear sign that Harriet Harman will be gone soon.