FlyTheNest

I wonder if Number 10 know that there is some even more incriminating news to follow on the Cummings story.

Anyone seen the front page of tomorrow’s Observer yet?

@willow

Great post

PorFavor wrote:He sadly died on his feet, I feel. And he wound up with - "We've come a long way."

Evening all!

Nothing much to report really.

Still haven’t seen any swifts here, but I did spot a pair of cuckoos:-)

So, to be clear, when you went for a walk earlier there weren't lots of people sat in their driveways with bunting and cake? And definitely no children being towed in a trailer playing the drums? That was just us then? I'll be honest with you, it was pretty freaky and made me question my sanity a l...

"Are we nearly there yet?"

Laura K

This beautiful song came to mind today. Written about a very different scenario, but resonates for me.

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One for Roger if he hasn’t seen it, from the head of Suffolk Libraries: “You think you're having a bad week? My poor colleague has just been in to do her weekly check of the library building. The cleaner has started deep cleaning the space (so far, so good) and has cleaned the shelves but has put 18...

PorFavor wrote:Apparently, swifts should be with us soon (according to the RSPB).

Very timely!

This is interesting. Look at the replies!

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Hugh Pym under a complete barrage of attacks from Johnson supporters for daring to ask Rishi Sunak if he was embarrassed at the lack of PPE.

Laura will be back before we know it!

Wooden drivel ripped apart on Piers Morgan show (6,6).

@howsilly

Thanks for the pointer I will absolutely read these later.

Evening All

Just checked in and am obviously devastated to hear about HindleA

adam wrote:Some of the guardian has just appeared to go behind a 'registration wall' - you don't need to pay anything but you need to sign in to read.

Groan

Hi how silly I’m not sure that Starmer is right to be cautious. It was just a general observation on caution!

Caution can be good if one has a clear end point in mind.

We shall see.

Well, the leaked report makes clear AS *was* a problem - and part of the critique of those then in charge of party HQ was not dealing with it effectively. (as well as all the other damning stuff) and @Paul - my comment was really directed at HowSilly's first line. It's possible I'm unfairly taking ...

Roger in particular will enjoy this one

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@Adam I hope nobody is saying that it’s the end of the Antisemitism issue. But it clearly needs to be seen differently. Only this morning one of my Twitter contacts was criticising the 5 Merseyside MPs who have signed the letter to Starmer. Their crime in his mind? To have “ignored” an Antisemitism ...

It's nice(!) to see the Guardian continuing to attack Corbyn over anti-Semitism, in their article on the report, despite it saying that things were much worse before him and Jenny Formby. Yes. The idea that Corbyn is himself antisemitic looks ever more ludicrous. It seems his main failing was not r...

What kind of person would pay money to read this? The UK will lead the global coronavirus response to end this pandemic sooner By stopping a pandemic from turning into a long-term humanitarian disaster it will not just save lives but will help end the global spread of this disease sooner, writes An...

Sickened is exactly how I felt.

May not be her email now though.

I can email J.A. on the email she used to sign up here if folk are concerned?

Good to see the joint statement from Starmer and Rayner.

My instincts are that while they must have known things like this were going on they will nevertheless have been shocked by the detail here.

People are pointing out that Ashworth lambasted Dawn Butler for saying that Corbyn was trying his best and being frustrated by McNicol.

It’s hard to believe this was anything but a lie.

As I said yesterday I think Starmer will have to sack Ashworth. Which will be tough I know.

Actually Burnham is interestingly presenting himself as a victim in this. But not at all surprising. Ed M's take on all this would be highly "interesting" as well. Maybe soon? (one small comfort in this - many of the worst people in these revelations no longer work for Labour, others migh...

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Actually Burnham is interestingly presenting himself as a victim in this.

And you are right. I'm basically a loyalist. I campaigned for Blair, Brown, Miliband, Corbyn. The one thing that could make me leave the party is the shocking level of disloyalty we are seeing. Corbyn was elected leader in the first place because Burnham, Cooper and Kendall were so monumentally unin...

Right so nobody is going to say anything nice about my eggs, you're just going to prattle on about boring stuff like self-sabotaging factionalism in the Labour Party like it's anything new. In 2005 when I was working for the Lib-Dems in Leeds we were getting sent confidential emails on electoral st...

I didn't say we shouldn't have another referendum. Just presenting information

PFY - one of (several) reasons why PR is so important for the UK. Labour as it was conceived doesn’t make so much sense now, and our society is such that it will always be divided; but a functional consortium of social democratic, green etc left of center parties could actually get us somewhere. Ev...

I’ve just downloaded and started to read the whole report. My initial conclusion. Labour did not deserve to be elected in 2017 or 2019. How could such a divided organisation govern? And Starmer has absolutely got his work cut out to get past this. As the report says there should be healthy disagreem...

Rachel Swindon has just posted the whole Report

This is quite remarkable
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For some reason I was telling my son just the other day that the most famous case of someone actually dying laughing was thanks to the Goodies. It was the Ecky-thump one I think.

refitman wrote:This is lovely, from Barry Gardiner:

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What a lovely guy.

Sadly Starmer a bit useless too?

Brink rejector: confused minister doesn’t know where he lives (6,7).

PorFavor wrote:
tinyclanger2 wrote:Hello
Is it me you're looking for?

Only joking!

@Roger

You are Spinning Hugo and I claim my 5 pounds

So predictably there’s now talk of a GNU

Agreed. Some excellent candidates in the deputy contest, which is reassuring I guess!

Morning All While waiting for the big announcement, just to reply to Sky’s query last night. I happened to read an article the other day which covered the same ground from a different perspective. The basic proposition, which makes sense to me, is that nudity has increasingly been commodified as sex...

citizenJA wrote:Labour party members don't have Labour party enemies. It's unprofessional calling another Labour party member an enemy. It's rude and pointless.

Mr Blair had scars on his back from his Labour enemies apparently

This Tweet made me glad of my choice for Deputy

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