Wakefield by-election

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Nadine looks at Boris, the way boris looks at his 2 AM wheel of cheese and flagon of port.

[ursus arctos]

Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary and probably Boris Johnson’s most loyal supporter in cabinet, has claimed byelections are “useless” as a guide to what will happen in a subsequent general election.

[Satchmo Distel]

There's going to be a very drunk and angry Nadine Dorries outside her house later if so.

She'd be singing 'Priti Va-cunt' but without the 'Va'.

[Sean of the Shed]

She'd be singing 'Priti Va-cunt' but without the 'Va'.

"GET DAHN 'ERE YA FUCKIN' SLAPPER AN I'LL SHOW YA A PROPAH 'OSTILE ENVIRONMENT!"

[Satchmo Distel]

"KEEP YER 'ANDS OFF MY MAN YA FUCKING CAHNT"

[Eggchaser]

Priti Patel's memoir 15 years from now: "I shagged Boris to take his mind off the Tiverton result."

Jesus, what an image.

Brain bleach all round!

[ooh aah]

Jesus, what an image.

Brain bleach all round!

Picture Private Helga from Allo Allo wrestling with a blancmange

[Duncan Gardner]

Kindly delay images like that until after brunch

[Eggchaser]

Brain donor and universal target of scorn in the legal world, AG Braverman, has labelled the results as happening because of a "dishonest" pact. I assume there's some legislation in the offing to bar this sort of underhand villainy.

[ursus arctos]

She is quite something.

It speaks volumes that he is now essentially down to the likes of Dorries, Braverman and Raab, who would have lowered the intellectual tone of the Trump bunker.

[My Name Is Ian]

Just dipping their toe into the water of claiming electoral fraud should they lose the next GE narrowly, I reckon.

[Duncan Gardner]

I'll let m'learned friends comment on Missus Earworm's* legal abilities but my mate (married to her cousin) confirms she has no small talk at all. Based on meeting once at SB's wedding, most of the other guests being Tory activists

* [You're a Braverman than I]

[DCI Harry Batt]

There were some people on twitter earlier suggesting worse, but I can't find any reasonable backup for it:

https://twitter.com/RussellEngland/status/1540617185814581249?s=20&t=bS3_RKrD2fyqqupZi8TfKQ

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

The growing Tory panic about an informal Lib-Lab pact, and their fascistic threats on the topic, are wonderful contributions to its promotion, which is great news given that such a pact is both desperately needed in the interests of defeating the most malevolent and crooked government we’ve had since the Napoleonic wars and difficult to achieve in the face of mutual Lib-Lab tribal hostilities.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

… although it occurs to me that such tribal hostilities between Lab and LD are a brilliant defence against legal challenge to an unspoken pact between their respective electoral supporters. As long as Lab and LD are reluctant to do anything officially or “from the top”, and the “pact” is merely the outcome of urging from the large body of independent anti-Tory influencers with some unspoken connivance from (some) Lab and LD activists, any Tory attempt to undermine its benefits through the courts surely has to be doomed?

[Snake Plissken]

Nice to know that even informal pacts are under consideration because, y'know, they were utterly verboten when it came to things like Brexit and getting the Tories out in 2019. I wonder what has changed.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

This fucking Government only exists because of their "dishonest" pacts with the DUP and UKIP. The sheer fucking gall of them is astonishing.

[Snake Plissken]

Anne Widdicombe even said out loud that the Brexit Party were offered inducements to not stand in Tory seats in 2019.

[San Bernardhinault]

I'll let m'learned friends comment on Missus Earworm's* legal abilities but my mate (married to her cousin) confirms she has no small talk at all. Based on meeting once at SB's wedding, most of the other guests being Tory activists

* [You're a Braverman than I]

Just in case it wasn't clear, Ms Braverman and Duncan's mate were not at my wedding. I also suspect they weren't at Slightly Brown's

[Duncan Gardner]

How do you know we don't have a mutual friend off line?

[San Bernardhinault]

I know that most of the guests at my wedding weren't Tory activists and I'm 99.9% sure Ms Braverman wasn't among them

[Discordant Resonance]

Latest seat modelling projection:

Lab 300
Con 252
SNP 50
Lib Dem 23
NI 18
Plaid 5
Green 1
Other 1

Presumably some Lab-Lib agreement would be the consequence:

https://sotn.newstatesman.com/2022/06/britainpredicts/

[DCI Harry Batt]

A Labour - Liberal government would be pretty bloody rotten.

[E10 Rifle]

A senior LibDem was on the telly yesterday calling for the army to be sent in to break strikes. The progressive alliance, there. Though the Labour frontbench has been almost as reactionary on this issue of late

[DCI Harry Batt]

A senior LibDem was on the telly yesterday calling for the army to be sent in to break strikes.

Evoking that "Spirit of 45" there.