That Starmer fella...

I thought she was good, boris seemed pretty angry on a few occasions, maybe there was something in what Cummings said.

Thoughts on Angela Rayner at PMQ's?

Absolutely slayed it. She's just better at the theatre - which is to say, better at PMQs - than Starmer is.

Yeah I only saw a couple clips but he looked rattled and she made her points well I thought.

Anyone else had this email from privacy@labour.org.uk ?

1 Attachment

^ bbc on it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59153761

Yup, me and the wife got the same thing. Looks ransomware-y to me.

Yeah got it

Yep!

Not ideal.

Good piece from Starmer on Johnson's corruption. I'm not sure anyone's going to care, but at least he's going for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/03/call-out-tories-corruption-conservative-owen-paterson-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I really hope they manage to make some of this stick, the whole thing stinks of corruption.

It really does but as Stephen Bush points out today (https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2021/11/will-voters-punish-the-conservatives-for-blocking-owen-patersons-suspension), voters don't seem to care much about corruption

I think this has been tabled before. But incompetence>corruption.

It seems many people see corruption as part of the game and ‘getting things done’. Needs to be tied to personal losses in the electorate to stick.

When is Labour going to hire he-who-shall-not-be-named?

It seems many people see corruption as part of the game and ‘getting things done’

Yep, I think there is unfortunately a significant element of truth to this. The pursuit of power has been valorised to the extent that actions such as this appear as displays of strong leadership. It's hard not to feel as though the Tories are going through a process of Orbanisation now—there is literally nothing standing in their way.

I'm glad Starmer has finally started to use the word 'corruption' but as others have stated I doubt it will stick, not least because his hands aren't exactly clean—remember when he refused to name his campaign donors?

I thought it was more a case of “they all have their snouts in the trough” rather than strong leadership.

I might have misread the situation to be fair! But yeah would definitely agree that there is a pervasive cynicism to people's reactions to it as well.

On the strong leadership question, here's what one Sky journalist was saying:

Interestingly it looks like the plans for a new commission have been scrapped (or at least postponed). I'm not quite sure where the pushback has come from on this

remember when he refused to name his campaign donors?

His campaign donors were all published in Hansard on time and in full. That was a non-story.

According the Newsnight last night and Twitter this morning, Tory MP's were being swamped with angry letters from constituents they don't normally hear from, so was cutting through much more than they had expected. Boris gambled on it being a Westminster issue and apparently got the calculation wrong.

That's pretty grim.

Would not have predicted that to be honest, cheers!

Not a member any more, but got it, yes.

I think you're completely right on this.. the optics were awful. Bryant didn't do himself any favours going full Godwin on R4 this morning.

Edit to add.. the whole process looks iffy to me. In a normal workplace Patterson would be off to a tribunal for constructive dismissal (and probably lose).

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