[Youngian]

Far right activist

Whoever it was they are remarkably inept, they failed to burn down two houses Starmer no longer lives in and set fire to a car which isn't his. The burning of the Reichstag it was not.

[mattomac]

The kind who only said a few swear words on X no doubt?

[Bones McCoy]

A wizard did it.

[Abernathy]

Rafael Behr is such a good political commentator/writer. This piece is very perceptive, and I very much concur with Behr’s analysis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisf ... VcIda3yyuA

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making

[The Weeping Angel]

They do say that Bluesky people don't really do humour.

https://mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/ex ... -with-keir

I wake up around 5.30am and wonder if that’s a normal time to get up. Grok tells me most people get up around an hour later, so I stay in bed and scroll Lee Anderson’s X feed - he’s usually cooing in a racist way.

Victoria needs her sleep, so I let her lie-in while I go and ask the focus group we keep in a static caravan behind Number 10, what to do for breakfast. Back when I was in opposition they’d recommend a bowl of porridge with hazelnut milk, vanilla paste and goji berries, a cup of rooibos and a Guardian. Now I’m PM they’re more likely to recommend a Greggs bacon bap, can of Monster (Mango Loco) and a Sun.

I like being Prime Minister. There’s less anxiety and more presence than when I was leader of the opposition. Not having a vision is very liberating. I’m a Capricorn. So I crave routine. Morgan [McSweeney] is really into that too and before we start work we like to chant mantras in front of GB News. In opposition it used to be “follow the crowd, not your conscience”, but now I’ve got a thumping majority we’ve changed it to “follow the mob, not your conscience”.

If it’s a week where we’re releasing a white paper on immigration that surrenders almost entirely to populism, I’ll remind whoever is on the broadcast rounds that they now think multiculturalism has failed and migrants are in fact to blame for our poor housing and public services.

If they suggest that this cowardice validates the hateful nativists who stubbornly insist they don’t recognise the diverse country they’ve lived in their entire lives, and who will also never vote for me, I’ll ask Angela if she wants to retain the ministerial car and then look meaningfully at the crossed out pictures of Zarah, Jeremy and Dianne I keep on my desk.

[davidjay]

At least they tried.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Suspect arrested. He’s Ukrainian.

[Abernathy]

The following quoted text is not my own, but it is entirely congruent with my own thinking on the matter, therefore I paste it here for Mailwatch consideration.

Amidst all the righteous outrage and solemn pledges never to vote Labour again, it needs to be understood that what Labour is doing is planning for the NEXT election. A single term in office (let alone 10 months) isn't sufficient to turn around the utter shitshow served up by 14 years of Tory ruin. So make the difficult decisions now and hope that in 4 years, things are better and the voting populace shrug their shoulders and have forgotten the tough times we're going through now.

Starmer’s choice of words on Monday was a complete mis-step, however, this isn't about here and now, it's about who wins the next election.

That's always been the plan.

Remember Brexit? The first and only time a country has voted to impose economic sanctions on itself?

We don't talk about it anymore, do we? Despite the absolute shithole it created.

I'd rather a lawyer in charge than that latin-spouting straw-haired gibbon in a blue suit that cost countless lives during the pandemic.

Or, indeed, a frog-faced, nicotine-stained professional grifter.

So we’re in the first phase of the successor long-term plan to the “priceless porcelain vase” plan to get elected to government. A second term in 4 years’ time is absolutely crucial to Labour’s long term plan to get the UK back to where it ought to be.

Just keep those words - long term” in mind.

[kreuzberger]

He needs to keep those words "long" and "term" in mind too, such is the fizzing pissedofftitude of many who showered Starmer with a huge yet shallow majority. This is not where he should be but the situation is not currently irretrievable.

A shock to The System could be fatal, as Gordon Brown will confirm.