Mailwatch(ed) Forum

It sounded good from the bits I was reading. The trouble with it is that they've wanted to do this stuff already, have been doing it, and nobody's been satisfied because different standards have been put on his government to every other. To use a different issue, they quite reasonably thought when they came in that reducing the costs of 'hotels" (which they did quickly by processing cases again) and phasing them out over the Parliament was OK. They weren't allowed that by the media, and had to try and do it much quicker. I fear that it's probably not possible to go "further faster". There are already not really any redlines on the EU apart from Freedom of Movement, which would be very hard to give up right now. Doesn't make the negotiations go any faster.

Friday- I'll stand if nobody else does.
Monday- I won't stand.

What a way to piss away a good career. She may have unwittingly saved Starmer too. This is one of the most perplexing political miscalculations I've ever seen. Lots of the MPs who want Starmer gone want Burnham, who isn't in the Commons and couldn't fight a leadership election. They don't want her as an interim.

Yep - statement voiced over on WATO.

Maybe a whip withdrawal is in order, pour encourager...

We have a new Clare Short.

I'm also struggling to understand the point of what West is trying to achieve. Apparently, her round-robin email says that "your name will not be made public- for now" . But surely the whole point is that you DO need to come out publicly and say you want to change the leader. And who's going to challenge, if she's not going to bother?

West would be as well trying to organise a formal confidence vote through the PLP as in 2016 on Corbyn. She'd get a more accurate picture.