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Bit awkward for Ed.

Mahmood apparently. Safest with the markets but she’s calmed things down a lot further at the Home Office. His other safe pair of hands, Yvette Cooper, it’ll be interesting to see where she ends up. Streeting, what prize for not standing? Share your cynicism on Rayner and also Miliband (Ed variety, not David who might turn up via peerage). Although Streeting already cut a 60% swathe through NHS England’s staffing and the DOHSC merger and waiting lists coming down albeit not across the board so only so much harm she could do. Allisder Heath has some front in the DT. Yes, the same one who wanked off over Truss’s budget (the greatest in a generation apparently) and Truss herself. I don’t think I’ll put much store in his opinions. Nor the Mail who ditto. Keynes stopped working in the 1970s and the Thatcher levers haven’t been working for quite some time. Burnham worries me on the economy but economics goes in cycles.

Writing on the names is too small to read but back to Attlee?

There’s an appetite for change for Burnham in a way there never really was for Starmer but he’s got little margin for error. He can tweak around taxes to generate a bit more change but he’ll need to use the scalpel on the welfare budget https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-can-andy-burnham-actually-do/ Interesting piece by the Conversation on what he might do https://theconversation.com/how-andy-burnham-may-try-to-give-the-uk-economy-a-boost-in-his-10-year-plan-286207. His initial statements are bold and it’s hard to see the fiscal headroom he’s got to deliver it with. As for Farage, he’s very tarnished now by the bung, money laundering and other scandals, more to come out as well is the rumour. Whatever they’re doing in the polls at the moment, they’re going to get hit by tactical voting in an actual GE which is why Farage gets so tetchy with YouGov. They’ll get a Lib Dem+ amount of seats next time which very impressive from where they’ve come from but no-one is collaborating with them for power. Enjoyed seeing Badenoch, Starmer and Davey queuing up to take the piss out of Farage in Starmer’s final PMQs. Even their own MPs were laughing. Not the same core base without Farage as leader and would lead to lower turnout as some don’t vote normally but Reform are damaged anywhere beyond their base with him as leader. Coalitions likely but they are too toxic for the Tories to consider let alone anyone else. Not sure he’s the ‘change, just any change’ for enough people now.

What that shows @Holmes_and_Watson is my first (nearly) 20 years of life = 3 PMs Last 10 years = 7 PMs

Being a Trump whisperer didn’t exactly help Starmer domestically in a political sense although it did help the UK’s interests when Trump was re-elected and had momentum. The Iran war has hurt Trump and he’s banging on about election fraud yet again without evidence because he knows one or both of the houses are going Dem in November (probably Congress). I wouldn’t needlessly pick a fight with him but if he wants to back his populist puppet Milie (beyond the huge sums of US taxpayers funds he’s already gambled on him) on the Falklands then a robust form of fuck off will go down well.

Seen footage from the 1970s when first involved with Charles where she seemed to be chain smoking and has said as such apparently in her 20s, said she gave up over 20 years ago.

Lettuces causing explosive diarrhoea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2gnglyv0jo

Bet it’s more genuine than the Blair/sitting in the Gallowgate end story (when it was still all terracing) or David Cameron (who at least had a former uncle as Villa chairman) https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/37418759/david-cameron-temporarily-forgets-which-team-supports

Poor old @iansums I’ll post a fart prank video to cheer him up

Dawse’s batting to add to the equation though.

Nice to see Raise the Colours have raised the tone and behaviour of some fellow citizens (not) judging by the video below: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x3487zl9o

🎵 Are you Soggy, are you Soggy, are you Soggy in disguise? 🎵

Designer needs to lay off the LSD

Yeah, Spurs aren’t spending £180m and then buying a 27 year old Championship winger, however good he is. Would like him to stay but he gets an offer of £25m or over, can see him and Saints looking at that seriously. Can’t blame him really and although I agree that many of the links are his agent, Palace 1) need to strengthen in that area, 2) can afford it, 3) second successive season of European football where they should go deep into the competition.