Democracy? Respect for law?

"The prime minister has said that it is not acceptable and therefore it will not be accepted... And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it is not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that is where the government steps in."

That's Harriet Harman as reported by the BBC.

If that quotation doesn't scare you, then it bloody well should.

What Harriet Harman seems to be saying is:
1) that if Gordon Brown says something isn't acceptable then it will not be accepted. Is the UK a one-man dictatorship now?
2) that regardless of the law the government can step in.

Do you find that acceptable?