Thread 54 Starmer: Grev Søppelbøttefjes Sommergalskap

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I shall be watching, listening and hoping the MPs are showing good judgement. I am still disappointed with the coup, and really hope this is a good thing. I would still have preferred to hear what he was about via a hustings process, but we are where we are.

I don't think yes men are a good thing and if everyone around him is backing him, thi may not be good. I'd like to see some of those who haven't be involved just so there is another voice. We will see.

Might be a record of where he's been/met?

The right will snipe and use stupid nicknames in any case. I hope Burnham does a good job. Let's see. Will he make Miliband Chancellor? That will cause some right wing heads to explode.

In my time on this earth, I can't remember a Labour party less apparently divided than now.

Amusingly they may have finally learned from the Tories who were incredibly good at disguising factional splits from the public. Even over Europe.

Until they couldn't. And we know where that led and what it did to them.

Or maybe the descendants of my generation have shifted the dial ?

Performative martyrdom; dodgy meetings; who knows? Jenrick on Today was the usual nonsense.

I think we might expect visitors today, apparently the murder suspect had Communist material, bearing in mind the Mail reported it that could be a copy of The Guardian 🙄

Meanwhile Dan Wootton 🤢

Nick Robinson did a fairly good job to be fair. Jenrick is such an arse.

The Mail specified Russian communist literature, I saw the front page on the BBC. So that could be anything. Maybe even a novel, literally literature! Or, being the Mail, a lie.

I wouldn't mind Milliband back in there. My head might explode if he sticks Streeting back on Health. Or anywhere.

So close ties with Farage then.The plot sickens.

I’m extraordinarily naive sometimes, that never occurred to me. It’s obvious now you’ve said it.

And yet Prince Andrews and Boris Johnsons "security" have never breathed a word about the movements of their charges.

Jenrick did my head in. Played the victim about the threats poor Nigel has to deal with - does he think his lord and master is the only one? I imagine Stella Creasey gets more than her fair share over her stance on abortion, but you don't hear her whingeing about.

Indeed. Still trying to figure out how, if you leave at 8am in the morning from south Yorkshire, you get to that remote part of Dartmoor for 12.30.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4w6wqye32o

The mysterious crapto firm backed by Farage's biggest donor

Scrutiny, transparency?

Security is usually discreet, his guys like to be very visible.

They may well not have done but there are still records.

Farage's resignation/by-election not doing much to blunt journalists curiosity about his financial affairs - bit surprised to see it from the BBC tho'

Jess Phillips probably needs more than all of Reform put together.

And Diane Abbott.

Reform source in Politico today on the G. Manchester mayoralty race, taking place using the supplementary vote:

“If it was first preference we’d throw the kitchen sink at the contest, but with preferential voting it’s a tough challenge"

In other words, "no one wants to give us their 2nd prefs..."

They have ditched their call for PR

I can guarantee there will be people sharing this unironically.

I am wearing my ‘Read Books, Walk Dogs, Fight Fascists tee today. This is Samson enjoying the beach at sunset.

In which case electoral reform can proceed without them.

Indeed. JP was my just my first thought as a neighbouring MP.