Gloucester Saint

BBQ and charcoal menu a speciality. Great Cajun blackened chicken I heard.

And Wesley Streeting’ goes into the end zone in overtime, touchdown! Dannett wasn’t enthusiastic the other day but then he wouldn’t be unless it was John Healey or Ben Wallace had defected parties.

Although we do supposedly have ‘Stalked him on a Tuesday, met him on a Wednesday, dined him on a Thursday, signed him on a Friday, he scored on the Saturday etc’

Rayner and housing is somewhat ironic! Streeting just going in - what’s unfilled in the bigger cabinet positions? Defence? Energy?

Having been there, it is a bit wanky. Lots of bridges I seem to remember with the ship canal.

What did tell you all?

Hopefully Petrie dishes up some clean overs.

I thought he’d be Health although Cooper is a solid pair of hands there. McFadden staying at DWP makes sense as needs someone who knows the brief to make reductions. Yes, we’ll see on Healey but I didn’t have him down as especially left. More of a presence to calm markets because Burnham does make bond markets more uneasy. Speccy enthusiastic https://spectator.com/article/john-healey-is-a-clever-choice-for-chancellor/

Spent 5 years in Gordon Brown’s Treasury though and markets seem to like him. Mahmood is the most popular member of the cabinet with the wider public (albeit not her own left wing) so staying Home Sec makes sense. If we’re talking curvy, Ed Miliband as Foreign Sec - even if he wanted it, that’s Marilyn Monroe. ’Over here Orange Rottweiler, enjoy your new chew toy’.

That’s the gambit - you want the budget for defence John, you find the savings then.

Sacked as Business Secretary and seemingly out of the cabinet, as is Lammy, Steve Reed, Liz Kendall and Lord Hermer. Reeves turned down one of the other big cabinet offices. Mahmood and Miliband just gone in there, Mahmood as CofE has been the chatter. John Healey went into No10 before them.

Especially on the training ground when the wind is blowing the wrong way and the smog works drift in.

As soon as I saw that on BBC News just now, I thought ‘I know someone who will be pleased with that’!

Still, Boro have a good future replacement for Hellberg https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdew76g9d1zo

My Dad queued up to get his Against the World book signed for me after he joined Saints. I still have it in my home library. We’ve lost him, Armstrong, Nicholl and Bally now from that famous and entertaining side.