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Believe me, Tubs, she really is bonkers.

Lives just up the railway from me, apparently. I wonder where she stands on the great turbine and pylon wars.

Long gone from Labour, of course, but he was an actual MP. So putting him here. I lose track on this stuff. If I were basing a satirical character on straight talking Tom Harris, I'd be wanting to criticize Cooper if she did comment on Iranian protests. "Giving a green light for them to come here on boats", that sort of thing.

Karl Turner is being a pain in the arse over jury trials.

Seems like quite the fuss to make. And a pretty silly point. Nobody has ever seriously said that everything you do has to be in the manifesto.

I assume Lammy has been asked if this was something being done just to save money. If you say “yes”, that’s wrong. If you say “no”, that’s wrong too.

I really don't see the issue that much.

You're not allowed to change anything if you're a Labour Government. And if you don't immediately conjur up zillions for what's being discussed, that's "just tinkering".

Never mind the fact that these are based on recommendations from an experienced judge and KC. Karl meanwhile, has resorted to tweeting this every day.



Karl never wonders why these courts might not be sitting.

Lammy is perfectly aware of this, one supposes.

One presumes Karl didn’t run on tax increases for his modestly paid constituents.

I assume its the same as trying to put together a meeting for 3 is easier than one for 15.

I'm going to unfollow Karl Turner now.

What's Andrew Fisher talking about? Taxes and borrowing have been raised to pay for the extra spending across the board. And digital ID ought to help make efficiency savings, so it's investment spending in that sense. Anybody can pick out two items, one they like and one they don't, and say that spending on the first one has been cut to pay for the second.

I had a thing from the NHS about bowel cancer screening, which I'm going to have. One thing that caught my eye was that they said they didn't have my bowel cancer records. (I hope that's for the good reason that they don't exist), but it's pretty ridiculous. Someone is going to have their time wasted asking me about stuff that ought to be to hand.

It's a shame the Blair era attempt at NHS IT reform didn't succeed like it might have done. It wasn't quite the £10bn disaster if you read the NAO reports on it. The last one reckoned that it actually just about covered its costs in terms of benefits. Perhaps we could have been honest about that, and something might have got done by now. When I say "we", I obviously mean David Cameron and Nick Clegg, who preferred to have a "Labour grand IT projects waste while they neglected the basics" line.

He's referring to this.



As Wickham polling shows, people are more split on the idea.

This is standard stuff though. New spending from efficiencies, if you can find them.

This gobshite again. btw, why is it ok for him still to be on X, but not the Government?

Oh no, these people aren't operating buses?! Even under the London system, buses are run by private companies. Sadiq Khan and Ken Livingstone were not in the least bothered. Is Big Bri is going to hassle Sadiq as a class traitor next time he sees him? Perhaps he'll suggest that TfL make its own pies as well.

One reason Labour takes money off businessmen is that they showboat less than Sharon Graham does.