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Sir Keir Starmer misses his former deputy Angela Rayner, who was forced to resign in September. It has been claimed that she is preparing a leadership challenge https://t.co/xCZ386ToVZ
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Edit: Surely this is a question to which the answer is No... she might well come back into Cabinet in due course (see Mandleson etc) but I don't see her successfully challenging Keir.
But his revolving door cabinet seat thing is not what Labour requires.
The office is unbelievably tidy and paper- and book-free compared to those of my teachers. It must be the impact of IT - in my time one rather go ahead lecturer was trying out doing his own word processing.
It's further put to him [Prescott] Kamala Harris wasn't found to have played an active role in the 6 January Capitol riots, so what would an equivalent programme look like? It would examine her track record and the political consequences of if she was elected, he says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp34d5ly76lt
Perhaps Prescott should also question all those BBC documentaries over the years on Hitler and none at all on Ernst Thälmann.
What would this mean for Vance. If he goes early with replacing Trump he could be tarnished by the result. If he delays, he may find himself tied to a loser. Tough choices for him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5618168-republican-midterm-election-concerns/
Politics can be so cruel for the ambitious.
Remember her crime was messing up a tax bill that would need to refunded 6 months later (when the child reached an age that the trustees were no longer responsible). She was wrong but even in my love of weird tax cases it's one where I can't see the real crime...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2721lvylno
Police Chief in contempt of court. His *Farce* gets fined £50k. Because it would be unfair to blame him for the behaviour of subordinates.
The New Tony Montano Defence - “Your honour, while I led a giant cocaine cartel, the actual drug smuggling and murders were all done by employees and third party contractors. So fine my cartel - I should go free.”
WTF
Poor old Cheryl Hines if she’s having to do that
Not if my wife saw it !
Cryptic posts without a link - FFS!
What's certain is that she swallowed her pride and did align herself with Starmer and his policy ideas. That's good in two ways - firstly she listens and secondly she'll have undoubtedly picked up on all sorts of minor lessons.
Mahmood may just have outflanked her, but she seems a pretty likely candidate to fill the SKS shoes.
Should have mentioned he’s married to her
https://x.com/pipterino/status/1992859421194825966?s=61
Which would have the bonus of ending his career.
Northamptonshire's Chief Constable Ivan Balhatchet was found to be personally liable and in contempt of court at the Court of Appeal on 11 November.
"Transparency and accountability are fundamental to police legitimacy..."
He didn't have the (questionable) excuse of trying to communicate the essence of a lengthy speech in a short piece; he was sitting in judgment in those who did, and introducing his own "evidence" to do so.
Have we done this?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2721lvylno
Police Chief in contempt of court. His *Farce* gets fined £50k. Because it would be unfair to blame him for the behaviour of subordinates.
The New Tony Montano Defence - “Your honour, while I led a giant cocaine cartel, the actual drug smuggling and murders were all done by employees and third party contractors. So fine my cartel - I should go free.”
Even if someone knew who I was what problems could it cause ? I think it’s different if you’re young and in work. There’s going to be some fucker trying to get you sacked for wrongthink.
(There's a bit of an argument in overdoing the sizzle to get permission for a smaller sausage, especially with half the electorate totally batso on the issue.
Even I'm not sure that is a convincing argument.)
Ask yourself though who you'd vote for to be next Labour leader. (I appreciate you're not that likely to get a vote)
So I would be very interested to know who, if anyone, paid him for the report, ie whose agenda he's promoting. I would also be curious about the relationship, direct or indirect, between Robbie Gibb, BBC board member, and Prescott given how hard Gibb is pushing this report. Board members' duty is to uphold the integrity of the institution, not to undermine it
Can’t say I’m fussed by this, seems fair enough.
Silly minor detail isn't a good look.
Here's mine:
There will be 83 dabbles.
Who do we and they all fear? Probably Burnham. Tories would also fear Streeting who is New Labour enough to win centrist swing voters but not leftwing enough for those considering the Greens.
Farage on policy would likely most fear Mahmood but a Muslim woman sad to say is still unlikely to win back many voters to Labour from Reform. Rayner would do better than Starmer in the redwall so she might worry Farage a bit but she would turn off middle class voters in the South so the Tories and LDs would welcome a Rayner Labour leadership.
Which means that, in this fractious and untalented time, predicting who the next Labour leader will be is hard. In a sensible world tyou would expect that 400 Labour MPs would get around to working out who is the next Attlee/Blair/Jenkins/Healey incarnate and rallying round them. But if they locate such a person they will not willingly make him or her leader, and if they by some miracle did, the members would say no.
So the feeling is strong that whoever is next will be a person who is fond of high spend and welfare, and follows whatever are the current causes, and says the things the MPs and members who hate hard choices want to hear. Bet accordingly. For the moment I am staying out.
We need bold policies for a Bold Britain.
Forget SMR…
Allow people a limit of say 250kg of Uranium, enriched to up to 10%.
#NukesInTheShed
In which case perhaps all sane people should be rooting for Rayner as on HYUFD's account she is the best option to revive the centre at the expense of the loons.
My wife hates Bold. I do what I’m told.
The left are bereft!
And so Rayner, Mahmood. I quite like the outside Lammy bet.
(Many more possibilities of course)
Ideally I would have income tax at 22-23p with a plan to actually spend some money on infrastructure, hospitals and schools. You know the things people want that may get them to vote Labour in 3 years time...
Suggesting Starmer Labour have unfairly punished your bunch, they have been guilty of dereliction of duty and done nothing.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/24/john-carpenter-brian-narelle-interview-dark-star-alien-sci-fi-comedy
'Dark Star opened in 45 theatres: a movie starring nobody anyone knew, that people didn’t understand was a comedy. Dan O’Bannon left a screening where 12 curious people walked in and didn’t know what they were looking at. He said: “Fuck ’em. If I can’t make them laugh, I’ll scare the shit out of them.” And that was the seed for his screenplay for Alien.'
It isn't just me that is Rayner fan.
This is the graphic from the recent LabourList poll of members. There is no easy path for Burnham, so that puts Rayner in pole position. Ed Miliband not far behind. I dont think that the members or PLP want Streeting or Mahmood.
Sure, the Daily Heil would be apopleptic, but that isn't the electorate in question.
In direct costs.
Pentagon reviewing 'misconduct' allegations against Senator Mark Kelly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxqwrlp7r0o
My god. What on earth can have caused him to be appointed to his role?
Can't we just blame Dido Harding for that?
If not, I'd have thought replacing him in late 2027 or 2028 is the best bet. Enough time to set a new direction and choose the general election date, but without needing to come up with an entire new policy platform off the cuff.
However perhaps the last line explains your fandom. It would annoy the Daily Mail. So that's good enough for you.
His new French girlfriend bought herself a house in Clacton like French girlfriends do.
Meanwhile Ange paid the tax she owed
1) Don't contradict Trump too strongly publicly.
2) Privately insist on reasonable sounding changes to the otherwise excellent plan, knowing Russia will reject them.
3) See Trump get annoyed at Russia for not accepting the revised plan.
I expect we get to step 3 by the weekend, after which the whole thing will be forgotten again for a couple more months.