[The Weeping Angel]

That isn't really fair in McSweeney's case

[Abernathy]

Morgan did amazing work to ensure that the party could recover from the darkness of the Corbyn misadventure and become electable again.

I’m not at all sure that it’s correct to blame him entirely for the mis-steps in communications. I’d say James Lyons and Steph Driver need to take a share of responsibility since they replaced Matt Doyle.

[Abernathy]

This is quite interesting from Beth Rigby. Seems Starmer was seeking to echo not Enoch Powell, but Roy Jenkins.

Still, though, they should have been more careful to avoid words amdtetms that could be taken out of context and linked to Powell.

https://news.sky.com/story/who-pm-was- ... hsuMiqOcvA

[Tubby Isaacs]

You need a beast like Alastair Campbell.

I think he'd be pretty powerless really. It's one thing to terrify and charm the editor of The Times when Murdoch supports your party (through gritted teeth). Quite another to deal with Twitter, You Tube, Facebook.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

This is quite interesting from Beth Rigby. Seems Starmer was seeking to echo not Enoch Powell, but Roy Jenkins.

Still, though, they should have been more careful to avoid words amdtetms that could be taken out of context and linked to Powell.

https://news.sky.com/story/who-pm-was- ... hsuMiqOcvA

Never underestimate those of bad faith.

[Youngian]

I'm guessing if Jenkins was the Health Secretary facing a recruitment crisis in the 50s he'd have been more likely to have scowled southern Europe for labour than the Caribbean like Brigadier Powell. Who was more of a colonial patrician than a petit bourgeois nationalist back then.

[kreuzberger]

Even a decade later, we were putting pennies in envelopes for earthquakes in Italy, so I believe that anywhere south of the Sandette Light Vessel (automatic) was either ours, had been ours, or was not worth having.

[kreuzberger]

Morgan did amazing work to ensure that the party could recover from the darkness of the Corbyn misadventure and become electable again.

I’m not at all sure that it’s correct to blame him entirely for the mis-steps in communications. I’d say James Lyons and Steph Driver need to take a share of responsibility since they replaced Matt Doyle.

He needs root and branch - er - reform. Starmer is the man, who, let us not forget, closed a PMQs with "I'll just leave that there" and we were all jubilant, confirmed in the belief that the tide had been turned. From that moment on, a majority was as good as nailed on.

Thing is though, he has allowed himself to be surrounded by make-weights, having not given due consideration to the Chief-of-Staff role. He is up to his arse in Trumpian and Ukranian alligators so he has every right to basically pick up a speech, deliver it, and then move on to the next gig. At least, that is the way it should all work.

The problem is though, that his team is proving to be a litany of missteps from which he cannot absolve himself of responsibility.

He is choking on the cake he baked.