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Reform MP James McMurdock was jailed for repeatedly kicking girlfriend

The MP had told the media he had been jailed for ‘pushing’ former partner in 2006, when the court records say he repeatedly kicked her on a night out

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-mp-james-mcmurdock-kicking-ex-girlfriend-rm3ffx73x

Full piece:
https://archive.ph/vsfeZ

Jared O'Mara Mk II?

I did not realise we kept court records that long.

I had always assumed court records were kept permenently for historical research purposes.

Crown court records are, magistrates courts records are disposed of not long after

Reall? That's a shame.

Information governance types thesedays would see everything destroyed when no longer 'needed' because of interpretations (sometimes correct, sometimes not) of data protection laws, so we'll probably miss a lot of mundane but useful slice of life information for historical purposes unless someone out there is just storing it all anyway.

More in Common poll:

https://x.com/luketryl/status/1859658844814836061

🌳CON 28% (-1)
🌹LAB 25% (-2)
➡️ REF UK 19% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+2)
🌍 GREEN 8% (nc)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)

Fantastic poll for Kemi and the Tories who in their wildest dreams after their rout on 4th July would not have dreamt of being 3% ahead of Labour in a poll less than 6 months later.

Also a good poll for the LDs who are up 2% at Labour's expense

You read too much into polls. Ed Milliband led Cameron at this stage for all the good it did him.

Cameron never polled as unfavourably as Starmer is now

Starmer comes across v badly on television .. not as bad as Brown but not far off....

I think SKS may be WORSE than Brown, because he has all of his bad attributes and very few of his good attributes.

For all Browns faults (and there were many) he was an intellectual, he was the "brains" behind New Labour, he knew what he wanted to achieve as CotE if not as PM. He was generally an exceptionally formidable politician and no doubt one of the giant political figures of later 20th Century British politics.

If he'd been willing to acknowledge his "flaws" and let Tony carry on being the "front man" while he was the "brains" , New Labour could have had 20 years in power and Brexit would probably never have happened.

But getting back to SKS, sadly none of the above positive attributes apply, yet he is waylaid by most of Browns negative character traits.

I think the PM Starmer most likely resembles is probably the appalling Edward Heath? And possibly Theresa May?

I think Iraq had already done for Blair by then - I doubt he would have won the 2010 election.

If Iraq didn't get him, the 2008 crash probably would have. Remember John Burn-Murdoch's chart of swings against governments? 2008-11ish weren't pretty either.



1. It's always the economy, stupid.
2. Governments ride the economy much more than they control it. They may not think so, but they do.

More in Common poll:

https://x.com/luketryl/status/1859658844814836061

🌳CON 28% (-1)
🌹LAB 25% (-2)
➡️ REF UK 19% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+2)
🌍 GREEN 8% (nc)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)

Fantastic poll for Kemi and the Tories who in their wildest dreams after their rout on 4th July would not have dreamt of being 3% ahead of Labour in a poll less than 6 months later.

Also a good poll for the LDs who are up 2% at Labour's expense

You read too much into polls. Ed Milliband led Cameron at this stage for all the good it did him.

Cameron never polled as unfavourably as Starmer is now

Starmer comes across v badly on television .. not as bad as Brown but not far off....

I think SKS may be WORSE than Brown, because he has all of his bad attributes and very few of his good attributes.

For all Browns faults (and there were many) he was an intellectual, he was the "brains" behind New Labour, he knew what he wanted to achieve as CotE if not as PM. He was generally an exceptionally formidable politician and no doubt one of the giant political figures of later 20th Century British politics.

If he'd been willing to acknowledge his "flaws" and let Tony carry on being the "front man" while he was the "brains" , New Labour could have had 20 years in power and Brexit would probably never have happened.

But getting back to SKS, sadly none of the above positive attributes apply, yet he is waylaid by most of Browns negative character traits.

I think the PM Starmer most likely resembles is probably the appalling Edward Heath? And possibly Theresa May?

I think Iraq had already done for Blair by then - I doubt he would have won the 2010 election.

More in Common poll:

https://x.com/luketryl/status/1859658844814836061

🌳CON 28% (-1)
🌹LAB 25% (-2)
➡️ REF UK 19% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (+2)
🌍 GREEN 8% (nc)
🟡 SNP 3% (+1)

Fantastic poll for Kemi and the Tories who in their wildest dreams after their rout on 4th July would not have dreamt of being 3% ahead of Labour in a poll less than 6 months later.

Also a good poll for the LDs who are up 2% at Labour's expense

You read too much into polls. Ed Milliband led Cameron at this stage for all the good it did him.

Cameron never polled as unfavourably as Starmer is now

People forget that Cameron was actually the most popular LOTO, other than Blair, of the past 50 years and his ratings generally held up rather well for much of his time as PM.

Partly that's the passage of time revealing some missteps that were not as obvious at the time, but probably there's a big chunk of people blaming him for Brexit and all that followed and so refusing to be open to the possibility he was reasonably popular. I suppose an equivalent would be people denying Blair was popular because of how they feel about Iraq.