Piss-up in a brewery time

Scheduling software is cheap and includes the facility to include weekends. It would seem that the Labour government didn't realise that Hariet Harman stops being "in charge" on Friday and Peter Mandelson is on holiday until Monday that people might wonder who was in charge over the weekend.

Maybe Harriet Harman thought that as a woman she didn't habe to work weekends and Peter Mandelson was too busy enjoying the hospitality of the wealthy to come home early once the problem had been discovered. So as of now any crisis would be handled by Peter Mandelson via his BlackBerry or over a non-secure telephone line.

Maybe Gordon Brown is "really in charge" anyway and the "Minister on Duty" is just a honorific; if so do the public deserve to be told that we are being scammed?