[Bones McCoy]

I understand that Ricky has booked four first-class tickets to San Francisco for July 5th.

I hope he's sure to wear a flower in his hair.

[Bones McCoy]

Turned out nice again.

[Oboogie]

“Things can only get wetter,” thanks to Sophy Ridge for that one.

It’s as if Sunak has hired Corbyn’s campaign team.

A drowning man who has finally run out of straws.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Slightly awkwardly, the Tory chairman, Richard Holden, doesn't have a seat.

He can probably get one- there are, even now, safe seats available. But generally the carpetbagging isn't supposed to happen during the actual election campaign.

Chris Patten found being party chair wasn't exactly helpful to getting his constituency vote out. To do that, you put yourself about the constituency presenting yourself as a non partisan local champion- he was away from the constituency being Mr Nasty on national TV. Holden will no doubt go much further down the nasty road.

[Youngian]

They just keep coming

[The Weeping Angel]

I'm just hoping we can get Gary Sambrook out.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think you'll likely manage that.

We're going to be stuck with Sir Bill Wiggin, mind.

[Abernathy]

Gary's had his last Big Dinner.

[Andy McDandy]

Today is World Goth Day.

Hence the sad Yorkshire guy monologuing in the rain.

[Youngian]

Backbench Tory eyes are swivelling like a 70s office chair
https://x.com/christopherhope/status/17 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

[Youngian]

The ludicrous Lord Frost is going into battle, he wants to make it a Brexit election. Yeh do that
https://x.com/davidghfrost/status/17933 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not sure there's legs in a Brexit Election even in Lincolnshire.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Did Sunak go for Brexit in his speech? I was too surprised there really was an election to take the contents in properly.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Amazing that GB News got this story.

[Youngian]

I’m calling it now, Labour gains Wycombe

[davidjay]

So... how was the campaign launched?

By having Sunak speaking outside during a downpour, thereby showing that as my nan would say, he hasn't got the sense to come in out of the rain.
By not thinking that someone with a big speaker would drown out the speech and be picked up on news broadcasts around the world.
By having former spin doctor Guto Harri going straight onto LBC and basically saying that protestors shouldn't be allowed to laugh at the Prime Minister.
By choosing Independence Day, therefore handing the most obvious line in political history to Labour.
By letting Sunak make "Vote for me, there's going to be a war" the main plank of his strategy.

The next few weeks promise to be Christmas.

[Tubby Isaacs]

So that's a Minister of State (Baker) telling Sunak to fuck off. Great start.

If you think that your seat is gone, as well he might, then it makes sense to take your holiday while you're still an MP.

[satnav]

I do like the idea that Farage is just going to announce which constituency he is going to contest. So presumably there has been no proper selection process and he is going to fight the seat without doing any campaigning in the seat prior to selecting himself for the seat. Even his good friend Donald Trump went through the primary process before becoming the Republican candidate.

[Bones McCoy]