@Rachael_Swindon

Just run with me for a moment.  Way back in 2019 I offered to give you 40 brand spanking new pairs of shoes. Not 10, not 20, but 40.  These shoes would be of the highest quality - the very best that Primani has to offer. You don’t need to throw your old shoes away, they have served you well, and there is plenty of life left in them yet, but there’s no denying that you need more shoes.  Skip forward to today and now. I still haven’t supplied you with those shoes, and you are still wearing your old faithfuls, as worn out as they may be. When you consider the amount of wear and tear they went through during 2020 it’s quite remarkable that they’re still in good order. But, I have a solution to this. You don’t really need new shoes. I will send you some new laces, and maybe a few inner soles - we will call them your new shoes, and I will have fulfilled my side of the deal.  Now here’s the best bit. Once you’ve done the gluing, popped some new laces in, scraped the dog poop off the bottom, a

“My promise to you is that I will maintain our radical values and work tirelessly to get Labour into power – so that we can advance the interests of the people our party was created to serve. Based on the moral case for socialism, here is where I stand.”  This was Sir Keir Starmer’s opening gambit to around half-a-million Labour Party members when he announced his candidacy for the top job.  During the Labour leadership contest, Starmer tries very hard not to distance himself too far from Jeremy Corbyn. The left vote is massive, after all.  He emphasised how closely he worked with Corbyn - he praised his success in pulling the party to the left and vowed to build on his legacy. One political commentator claimed an “accurate” description of Starmer’s bid would be “Corbynism without Corbyn”.  Some nineteen months later and the “moral case for socialism” is the immoral case for anti-socialism.  And what about “Corbynism without Corbyn”? All you got from that was Starmer without charisma

Things are starting to feel normal again.  My son went to watch Swindon Town play football yesterday - although social distancing has never been a problem if you’ve been to see Swindon before.  I actually managed to get a normal face-to-face doctor's appointment for the first time in as long as I can remember - although I did walk away with diverticulitis, sinusitis, and more drugs than a Colombian crack house.  And once again, after a brief flirtation with being just five points behind the worst government in living memory, Keir Starmer’s Labour find themselves back in double digit deficit territory, and a mere thirty one points behind the promise of being twenty points ahead under ABC (Anyone But Corbyn).  The political scene is often quiet during the summer months. Many of our MPs take six weeks away from Westminster, some dive into constituency work, others go away for a few weeks, which is entirely their right to do so, because the less time they’re here screwing up the countr