@Rachael_Swindon

I’ll start with a few simple questions.  What kind of Labour leader turns up at a banquet, sponsored by the S*n tabloid, grinning like a beige Cheshire Cat, just a couple of years after insisting he wouldn’t even so much as speak to the Murdoch-owned gutter rag? What kind of Labour leader claims they will be ‘boycotting’ the World Cup, just to watch it at his private Westminster suite, with an arms manufacturer that has shifted a reported £15 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since they began their war on the people of Yemen?  And while we are on systematic human rights abuses, what kind of ex-human rights barrister masquerading as a Labour leader would declare Israel not to be an apartheid state, despite the overwhelming evidence presented to us from multiple human rights organisations? Even the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Michael Lynk, said in his report to the Human Rights Council: "Apartheid is not, sadly, a phenomenon confined to the history books on southern Af

  After twelve long years of Conservative rule we find ourselves facing the biggest drop in living standards on record following Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement.  The Office for Budget Responsibility says that household incomes are going to plummet by 7% over the next few years and unemployment will rise by more than HALF A MILLION . Never again can we let the Conservatives declare themselves to be the party of economic responsibility, or the party of growth, growth, growth. They’ve had twelve years and we’re falling faster than we can fly. Hunt - damn typo - is the fourth Tory Chancellor in just four months and the Chancellor that has delivered the highest tax burden since WW2.  The Tories got their excuses in early, of course. They are blaming “global factors”, the pandemic, and the old favourite, Putin’s war in Ukraine.  Here’s the thing, the Tories must not be allowed to wash their hands of the last twelve years, and while the commentariat will pass them the anti-bacterial hand wash

  It has been virtually impossible to look away from the extraordinary Tory implosion that we have witnessed over the last few weeks and months. As you’ll probably know, I don’t just write about the Conservatives, but it has been difficult to write about much else of late, whether that be the end of Boris Johnson, the brief guest slot from Liz Truss, or the arrival of the billionaire Goldman Sachs Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.  But now it’s not so difficult.  Put the impossibly awkward Keir Starmer in front of a camera or a microphone and it doesn’t take long for you to remember why you don’t like Keir Starmer, you don’t trust Keir Starmer, and you certainly don’t want Keir Starmer.  Now I know what comes with calling out the knobbish knight of the realm as I have been doing it for the last two and a half years, as have many of you.  I’ll be called a “Tory enabler” and a “grifting Corbynista” - and much worse no doubt. But think of a number that is less than one and you’ll be able to co