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Good man Craig.

Never forget.

Looks like Starmer is cleaning house.

Or maybe not actually. Is this bloke a wrong'un? Seems to be some suggestions on twitter that this is long overdue and is internal Labour machinations getting rid of a problem candidate. So I might be getting my conspiracy theory on a bit prematurely.

Obvs no one knows the full story but wouldn't be remotely surprised if this was a Tory stitch-up because they know it's getting away from them.

Ed Davey still enjoying his gap year.

8% of under 50s. On a par with Reform. Gonna take something magical for this lot to have a future as a party.

Who does he think he is man? This all probably appeals to some of the more arrogant amongst the team's following (so about 80% of them), but it's doing him zero favours with the actual people he needs to negotiate with.

Mint news mate, pleased you got something sorted quickly, and it sounds like a winner too.

Aye, that's the weird thing. That Sunderland fans lay out their travelling outfit the night before a holiday and it's ALWAYS one of their shitty strips. And then they arrive and make a point of exploring the hotel and walking round the pool area in them, so everyone can mark their cards that the bamps have landed.

Aye, it was during the period when they were being hypersensitive and trying to show that Starmer was zero tolerance, and they completely overreacted. Mind, you can guarantee that if he hadn't immediately acted, it would have been used as a stick to beat him with by both Tories and the press. Which kind of underlines that she should probably have put a bit more thought into what she was doing and considered possible consequences. Or she knew and she was just seeing if she could test boundaries - that's what I mean about whether she's actually more of an arse pain than we realise.

New FT model to play with.

I don't know whether she's a bigger headache behind the scenes than any of us realise, because otherwise what you say makes perfect sense.

I don't know what their plan was if the election was in November. Presumably they always wanted to do this manoeuvre during a campaign (but handle it better) cos it would all be done and over with quickly. But if the plan was to make her wait another 5 or 6 months in limbo, that's a pretty appalling way to treat someone.

Looks like Labour have handled the Abbott thing terribly. They'd come to an agreement with her to restore the whip and then she would announce that she was standing down and bow out gracefully. But some dipshit yesterday told the Times she was "barred from standing" and now it's all become very acrimonious. I think the terms of the agreement were pretty much that she wouldn't stand, but when you've taken all this time to engineer an outcome, got the outcome you wanted, and then still managed to fuck it up is pretty shit.

This is supposedly the seat Iain Dale is getting after he announced he was leaving LBC to run. If Labour and the Lib Dems voters even remotely get their shit together on tactical voting, it'll be a short lived break from LBC.

On the plus side, they might have to drop into the conference league cos Nice are already in the Europe League and got there by finishing higher in Ligue 1. Ineos are in talks with UEFA and are "confident" everything will be fine, but I'll direct you to Ratcliffe's confidence that they would get Ashworth for a song. If UEFA don't take a stand here, then this rule basically goes in the bin and it won't be long before clubs under the same ownership are playing one another in semi finals, with all the controversy that would bring.

"The polls WILL narrow" latest. Polling conducted Mon and Tues of this week so this is the remix of Ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen. Say what you want about R Kelly, but you'll be humming that absolute banger for the rest of the day.

Bridget's come a long way from her Wednesday Addams days.

I'm gonna watch the exit poll then set my alarm for 1am or something and then try and watch the shenanigans. Good chance that whatever the exit poll says is gonna cause me to be wide awake and either shitting it or too celebratory to sleep though.

Looks like Abbott has been given the Labour whip back. An hour ago the Times was reporting an exclusive that she had been banned from running. So someone is talking shite.

Do you want me to come round yours?

Exact same. Had the holiday request in within half an hour of dickhead announcing the date.

Tell them all they have to come back to the office then this. Shady as fuck tactics from Ratcliffe. What a fucking cunt. Hope Ashworth likes it there.