[Nigredo]

He was talking about reopening coal mines- bizarrely only deep ones, not open cast- before he had to put big boy trousers on as Labour leader.

One of my political interlocutors used to enjoy watching Corbynistas' heads explode when he would brand St. Jeremy as "the last true conservative in parliament" and citing things like this as evidence for it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Can Labour stop running against London, please? I understand that Crossrail going ahead in 2010 when lots of other stuff was cancelled was bad. But it cancelled in 1994 by the Tories. And the Tories are shitting on TfL right now.

[Cyclist]

In which "The Absolute Boy" gives his expert advice on how to run the Labour Party

Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer should be bringing down the Tories, not curtailing Labour members’ rights


https://inews.co.uk/opinion/jeremy-corb ... 305962/amp

Oh fuck off Jeremy, do.

[Nigredo]

Jezza still reckons he "won the argument" doesn't he?

[BBN]

Starmer should definitely be taking lessons in how to beat the Tories from *checks notes* Jeremy Corbyn

[Cyclist]

Am I wrong in believing that Keir has done more "sticking it to the Tories" so far this month than St Jeremy the Politically Astute did in his whole four and a half years of sitting in the Big Chair?

Would I be even further wrong in believing that Keir has done more "sticking it to the Tories" so far this month than St Jeremy the Politically Astute has done in his whole 38 years as an MP?

[mattomac]

It depends if it’s the actual Tories or the one he believed had taken over the Labour party

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Looks like:

David Lammy - Foreign Office
Yvette Cooper - Home Office
Lisa Nandy - Levelling Up
Wes Streeting - Health
Emily Thornberry - Shadow Attorney General
Bridget Phillipson - Education
Jim McMahon - Environment
Jo Stevens - Wales
Ed Miliband - Climate Change & Energy (loses business)

Rachel Reeves remains at Treasury

No news on Scotland, DCMS.

Corbynistas shown the door.

[Abernathy]

I’m very, very happy about this. Cooper, Lammy, Phillipson, Nandy, Streeting, all inspired appointments.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Yup.
I can see why Rayner's people are spitting feathers.

[mattomac]

Rayner’s people seem upset that this reshuffle isn’t about her.

[Boiler]

Labour's longest-serving MP is to stand down at the next election.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-59538838

Barry Sheerman, 81, who has been Labour MP for Huddersfield since 1979, said it had been "the honour of my life".

The former select committee chair said standing down at the next election was the right time for him and the party.

Mr Sheerman added he was proud of the work he had done over the past 42 years but was looking forward to spending more time with his family.

[Arrowhead]

Labour's longest-serving MP is to stand down at the next election.

Harriet Harman has also announced that she will be standing down at the next election.

I've only just noticed that in the 1982 Peckham by-election which first propelled Harman to parliament, her Conservative opponent was a young John Redwood.

[Abernathy]

Margaret Hodge is also standing down. Expect more of these announcements from veteran MPs as the party begins running trigger ballots/selections.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Margaret Beckett might be one. First elected in October 1974.

[Abernathy]

The only reason that Labour is making progress in the polls now is that voters are finally beginning to realise that they have a venally dishonest incompetent as PM. Nothing to do with “Keith”’s contrasting competence, or canny slow but steady positioning, oh no.

That’s the line the embittered Corbots will take next, natch.

[mattomac]

As I made the point, May was hardly Thatcher.

[Crabcakes]

It seems Johnson has finally found the limits of how much shit the general public will swallow

[Boiler]

How does it go - "I'll wait for the (x) poll..."?

[Abernathy]

A. Corbot writes : “Opinion polls are for influencing voters, not for reflecting opinion.”.

A. Nother Corbot writes : “The polling companies are all run by Tories, anyway”.