sorry can't come in tomorrow. yeah i need to nurse my pustule

my long standing view is that the only utility of actually existing political cartoons is so future history students can explain contemporary prejudices in exams. this would admittedly be good for that but is on every other level reprehensible

just can’t be doing that can you

i hear your boyfriend is coming to visit

Handy poll and thread this. Bringing this out because there has been a lot of misplaced out-of-town criticism of a) the Labour candidate and b) the Green campaign’s choice to go for a “don’t worry! It won’t hurt Andy!” campaign message for much of the campaign.

(kate nash voice): he said said you must eat so many olives cos you are so, umami

bring him back !

my demands actually *are* moderate !

rnli mug i Desired out of stock : (

i've often thought, why do we have political cartoons, their only utility is future exam papers – but what a rich text this will be for said future exam !

Ultimately I'm fairly bloc politics pilled, and therefore fairly bloc efficiency pilled. Labour will only hurt themselves drawing a drastic line between their politics and those of the Greens

Unsurprisingly, I think Christabel is right! I think this is a point that Labour urgently needs to grasp. I think and lot of people in the Burnhamverse do get this, but it's far from universal.

Thoughts on Holborn & St P: Not ideal Green territory. May's locals were a Labour-Green toss-up here, so with Labour's position improving under Burnham, a fairly comfortable hold was to be expected. But it means that in the places where the Greens actually beat Labour in May, they remain a threat.

This is really interesting, and basically vindicates the v different approach Labour took towards the Greens in Holborn & St Pancras vs Gorton & Denton.