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I'd expect Mr Burnham to win. He's very high profile and seems to be well-liked. I don't see why there should be any 'stop him' vote.

Also I don't see why a new party should sit out a by-election to help another party beat him. By-elections are too scarce and a new party needs the experience. (Haven't noticed whether Your Party is in this campaign.)

Yes my sense is that there is no “we must not have him” vote, whereas that seems to be the case for everyone else.

In a way Burnham is where Starmer was in 2024. But unless Burnham has a plan he’s going to be right back where SKS is now.

SKS is the industrious box to box midfielder, Burnham is a vain glorious goal hanger. I'm pessimistic about him being an improvement.

Christ! It's raining again. This morning it was strong winds. 7 June - and there's been about 3 days of summer so far. 👿

We had a hailstorm this morning which laid partial waste to the council's nearby planter of pansies. Shame, it was rather pretty.

Blue sky and sunshine in Ayrshire

We have had a lot of rain overnight, the country roads were flooded this morning. Patchy cloud now and quite a surprisingly biting wind for the time of year. Fresh and very pleasant for the early walk.

Raining here right now. I rather like that when I have to wander down to the local supermarket, means there's probably going to be fewer people in there.

"I'd rather get wet than meet people."

Brexit: A Very British Civil War – tonight, BBC2 9pm.

I suppose we can't expect the BBC to make Brexit: How the Entitled Class Lost Their Shit...

Entitled class? Farage, Johnson, Tice, Lowe, Gove, Rees Mogg. They won, they should suck it up.

Remainers were the entitled class - who got their toys taken away by thick oiks.

And they still wonder what fuels Reform....

I don't wonder what fuels reform..mindless slogans such as stop the boats and blaming brown people for the country's ills. Reform are playing to the sizeable racist minority in this country (30%) who like to blame immigrants for their own stupidity. We'll see how stupid they feel when they are stuck in nursing homes at the twilight of their lives watching brown people make their teas and wipe their bottoms for them.