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From the very second that Labour were confirmed as election winners the usual suspects have been wittering on about having the grown ups back in charge. Let’s see how that has been working out.
Political parties are often described as broad churches. They survive by being able to unite both during election campaigns and when in government. Atlee had Bevin and Bevan at each other’s throats. Who can remember Harold Wilson’s political acrobatics as he struggled to keep his band of socialists on the straight and narrow. Then we had the seventies with the trades unions having a weekly visit to Downing Street. Famously known as the smelly socks brigade by Dennis Thatcher, at least in the Dear Bill series in Private Eye, they were forever demanding more and more. New Labour had Alkie Campbell keeping a lid on the brothers. The latest version of a socialist government is full of competing factions, more than ever before.
Less than a week after Labour’s thoroughly undeserved victory the tramp has kicked off about Gaza. He and the five “Independent” pro-Gaza MPs have written to David cLammy detailing their demands. These demands are essentially about shafting Israel and kissing the backsides of the Palestinians. Demands indeed.
In surprising news it appears that Momentum are still a thing. I must get out more. Anyway they are plotting an ambush on Labour over the two child benefit cap. Of course they want it removed while those in charge of what remains of our finances say there is no money to pay for it. Expect it to be removed, not having money for something never stopped Labour in the past.
A week and a day after the election, Ed Militwat is filmed fake playing a guitar, singing blowing in the wind while standing in front of a wind farm. And this is grown up politics. FFS. It is supposed to be part of his “GB Energy tour”. Does he think he is now a rock star ? He has also decided, all by himself and against advice, to stop all exploration in the North Sea. We can expect a hefty legal bill as the government gets its backside sued off. He was advised not to do this presumably for this reason but he went ahead and did it anyway. Is he on a promise from the doom goblin ?
On the Saturday, over a week after the election, Keith pens an article in the Grauniad headlined “The arrogant, reckless Tory Gummint left behind a mountain of a mess. In one week we’ve begun to clear it”. This is more often known as getting your excuses in early. He has also committed to keeping the BBC licence fee thereby ensuring even more favourable coverage than would otherwise have been expected.
Labour MP Rosie Duffield is putting Keith right on the spot. She has reposted a Times article criticising his Cabinet appointments implying a worrying uncertainty about gender and demands he be a man of his word by protecting women only spaces. This is a tall order for man who can’t even define what a woman is. This gender nonsense may well do for Keith eventually.
Just seen a tweet saying that a Labour source says that Crayons has been frozen out of everything in the new Labour government. Fancy that, Keith agrees with us and also thinks she is useless. The woman in question has responded by offering elected mayors to even more cities. Imagine that, even more Andy “bodybags” Burnhams to relieve us from even more of our hard earned.
A few days after these reports it seems that planning has been stripped from Crayons’ remit and she is left with basically very little. She is now just Deputy Prime Minister. The words of John Nance Garner spring to mind concerning a pitcher of warm yellow liquid.
Wes Streeting has confirmed and defended the ban on puberty blockers. Quite a few Labour MPs are not at all happy. Handbags have been drawn. The tranny collective is up in arms.
Twatter archeologists have uncovered some old tweets from David cLammy where he was less than kind to Donald Trump. If the Donald is elected President he may well hold to his promise of using Nigel Farage as a conduit to communicate with the UK. Obviously another sign of Labour’s grown-ups in charge.
In what can only be described as an act of insanity it has been announced that Ed Militwat is going to lead UK negotiators at the COP29 climate summit. Edstone possibly has a mental age of 10 and that is being generous.
After Clive Lewis childishly swearing his oath wishing for a republic, he has now taken it again without the amateur dramatics. I suspect they told him he wasn’t sworn in with a mealy mouthed oath like that and wouldn’t get paid until he did it properly, you know, the grown up way.
The promised defence Review will take forever. The left hate the military even though they have taken over its upper ranks. I thought the treasonous May had signed us up to the dangerous fantasy of an EU army hence the numbers being reduced so much. This Review has all the signs of posturing from Keith, even if it says build more ships, planes and tanks it will all be kicked down the road so it never happens.So much for grown ups running the show
Keith’s attempts at a “reset” with the European Union look doomed from the start. EU leaders expect very little to happen and von der Lying refuses to have anything to do with it. It all resembles CallMeDave’s ill-fated attempt to get a few crumbs from them. They can spot weakness a mile away and only respect strength. It seems Keith is doomed to crawl across broken glass if he wants to get anywhere with his ludicrous plans for a new relationship with the EU.
Bubbling nicely just under the surface we can see the various factions flexing their muscles. The only question is when will the dam break and what will be the trigger. My money is on Crayons kicking off as Keith strips her of all power. This is a path fraught with pitfalls. Having been elected to the deputy leader job, it will be impossible to get rid of her but Keith needs to keep her reasonably quiet to avoid the sisterhood rising in support of their Ange. I don’t think Keith has the nous to do that. A close second will be the Gaza faction who will not be appeased until Hamas precedes Israel in the pecking order. Third may well be the tranny question, for such a small percentage of the population they certainly make a lot of noise., Somewhere in the mix will be the pay demands of the trades unions, They have yet to start but it won’t be long, Labour always have this trouble with their paymasters.
Keith has a long list of banana skins to avoid if he wants a quiet life. Just when will he have to call in the IMF, it always happens.
I have sinned dear Puffins and I beg forgiveness. I do not have a clue who the SpAds are and even if I did, their names would not blot my parchment. I am afraid anyone who is interested in such things may still have to have a sneaky peek at Fatty’s site. Right, that’s that cleared up. What, nobody is interested, it is as I suspected so where does all the traffic at Fatty’s site come from then.
As a footnote, it is now apparent that the MSM have finally dropped the “at last the grown ups are in charge” repetition. Is this because it is so cringe or is it because it is about to become crystal clear to everyone that Labour are not grown ups at all.
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