[Andy McDandy]

Showbiz gossip reporters and frustrated wannabe novelists.

All Laura K's bit was missing were a bow and a cinnamon stick.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Waymarker sounds like a word Mason heard at his D&D table.

Ha ha, We're lucky he didn't say "Robert Jenrick has left the Tories and taken the Sword of Ishgarorn with him".

[Tubby Isaacs]

and, of course, insider knowledge of what Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and her team are up to.

He didn't this week did he and is unlikely to from now on.
So Jenrick's a Tory big beast and a huge Reform catch. But zero insight from Laura K about what this tells us about the talent levels of these two parties.

Does this make much difference? They're up to being Reform, except with (moderately) more fiscal credibility. That may be a winning message, it may not.

Does Jenrick know where bodies are buried? Otherwise, so what?

[Watchman]

There is fresh paint in Reform HQ - and a fresh face in its line-up[/quo te]


Well I doubt he's painted over the "too welcoming" swastikas

[mattomac]

The fact that he was so high up in the party and a minister tells you more about how far the Tories have fallen.

[Oboogie]

The fact that he was so high up in the party and a minister tells you more about how far the Tories have fallen.

Incredible to think that less than 18 months ago Jenrick stood for the Tory leadership and Badenoch only defeated him by one vote. And now he's gone.

[Bones McCoy]

Hot on the heels of Nigella Lawson joining Bake Off, another Mailwatch favourite makes the headlines.


I anticipate a weeping and wailing at this news.

Tearful Carol Kirkwood announces she is to leave BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedwp8w1j24o

Includes pictures of la divine Kirkwood in happier times.

Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood fought back tears as she announced on BBC Breakfast that she would be leaving the corporation after more than 25 years.

She hugged her co-presenters saying it was "really hard for me to say this because I love my job".

Kirkwood, who joined the BBC in 1998, will leave in April and said it had been an "absolute privilege" to bring viewers the weather.

[Abernathy]

Who was it on here (it wasn’t me) that used to complain that he couldn’t see Wales on the weather map because Carol’s embonpoint was getting in the way ?

[Andy McDandy]

Suspect that was you, Abers.

[Oboogie]

Suspect that was you, Abers.

I'd bet my jam tart on it.

[Abernathy]

Not guilty, your honours. It was Mayley Dayle, or something like that. Doesn’t seem to be around any more. He also did a brilliant Fred Bassett cartoon.

[Abernathy]

I’d just like to say that Chris Mason is a WANKER.

[Youngian]

What's Mr Mason have to say for himself?

[Abernathy]

Probably that him being such a massive a wanker is all Keir Starmer’s fault.

[satnav]

Laura Kuenssberg was quick off of the mark this morning tweeting about what a disaster the by-election had been for Labour. I seem to remember her having form for tweeting about some elections 2 minutes after the polling stations had closed claiming that it had been a bad night for Jeremy Corbyn but when the final votes had been counted Labour had done extremely well.

[mattomac]

She was the one who suggested Susan Hall had a chance.

[Abernathy]

it had been a bad night for Jeremy Corbyn but when the final votes had been counted Labour had done extremely well.

Eh ? I must have somehow missed Labour doing extremely well under Jeremy Corbyn.

[satnav]

I think it must have been the May local government elections in 2018. The number of Labour councillors went up by 32 whilst UKIP lost most of their councillors and Tories had just 2 gains.

[Tubby Isaacs]

She was the one who suggested Susan Hall had a chance.

Just seen that.

"It's clear that tonight the election is much much closer than some polls had suggested..."

Hall lost by 11.1% This rivals some of the 2019 Corbynite takes, though "Go and campaign in Nuneaton" is probably still in a class of its own. The Tories won by 28.5%,