[Crabcakes]

In the meantime, don’t tell the Corbynistas this, they’ll be furious:

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/poli ... l-progress

[Nigredo]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... omy-labour

Tone pops up with a bit of course correction.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think this is actually quite an interesting idea, despite the "Starmer is going to go for Preston" stuff BTL.

Local Government is a fairly unreported subject- see how few waves most of the stuff in Private Eye makes, but if the Tories see an opportunity, that will change. There' a lot of "vote them out then!" thinking on this stuff, but does that really cut it in councils with enormous majorities? I think this could be a positive difference with the Tories.

[Andy McDandy]

Stewart Lee on Beergate:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... is-johnson

Its purpose is to distract from the government’s own well-documented and proved Partygate crimes and its broader ethical, moral, financial, social and administrative failings. It’s like trying to cover up the Great Train Robbery by pointing out that someone else somewhere else once said the word “train”.

The so-called woke “brigade” was quick to ridicule Dorries for her mis-post, despite her dyslexia. Cruelly, a little-known dyslexia side-effect is the involuntary dissemination of photos suggesting people dined in Indian restaurants long after their own deaths and yet still the caviar communists sneer.

I bisected the moors between shows in Crewe and Huddersfield, skirting Alderley Edge, where legends say King Arthur lies sleeping, awaiting Albion’s hour of need. Like the mythical king, Dobson was a convivial character thought to embody Britain at its best. Perhaps he has returned in our moment of national peril. Is Dobson with us now, once more, like Arthur, in the dying land’s time of crisis, steering thirsty Starmer’s lip towards the lassi-filled grail of a parliamentary majority?

[Nigredo]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... t-27061721

The finest zinger Starmer has landed in PMQs thus far.

[Boiler]

Ah.

Labour's Starmer and Rayner sent police questionnaires over lockdown drinks

[Samanfur]

Unlike Johnson and his hangers-on, I expect that they'll return them.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The anonymous source seems to have gone quiet. Will the papers revive them on the back of this?

[Nigredo]

Unlike Johnson and his hangers-on, I expect that they'll return them.

And they'll be exonerated because Starmer has his marxist mandarin tentacles into the police force or summat.

[davidjay]

Unlike Johnson and his hangers-on, I expect that they'll return them.

And they'll exonerated because Starmer has his marxist mandarin tentacles into the police force or summat.

And doesn't threaten the establishment, unlike St Jeremy, who would have been fined if he had done anything the Great Reset could nail him on.

[Crabcakes]

“Anyone else would be 20 points clear…”

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yorkshire Party look too low there. Would expect them to come 3rd.

Where are the Northern Independence Party?

[Youngian]

Where are the Northern Independence Party?

Winning the argument? Significant poll if accurate as Labour are consolidating the anti Tory vote.

[davidjay]

Where are the Northern Independence Party?

Winning the argument? Significant poll if accurate as Labour are consolidating the anti Tory vote.

And the informal pact is holding.

[Crabcakes]

Starmer should tweet that he’s relaxing tonight with a beer and a korma.

[Tubby Isaacs]

And the informal pact is holding.

The Lib Dems only got 3.9% in Wakefield in 2019, so we can't really say from this seat whether it is holding as well as the Lab to Lib Dem side of it went in the earlier by elections. But encouraging.

[The Weeping Angel]

Where are the Northern Independence Party?

Winning the argument? Significant poll if accurate as Labour are consolidating the anti Tory vote.

Moaning about Starmer more like that.

[Boiler]

Starmer investigated by standards watchdog over late gift registrations

[Youngian]

He forgot he saw Crystal Palace play

Standards commissioner Kathryn Stone is believed to be looking into tickets received by Sir Keir for football matches involving Arsenal - whom the Labour leader supports - against Crystal Palace and Watford, worth £720 and £1,416 respectively.

These were declared more than 28 days late, as was an £18,450 advance payment from publisher Harper Collins for a book outlining his early life and plans for governing the UK, and making "a fierce argument for the vital role of respect and integrity in political life".

[Cyclist]

Not quite in the same league as announcing all gatherings are illegal and then having a piss up in the garden with your mates.