Reform hosted a press conference on law and order today in Westminster. New slogan for a new campaign: Family, Community, Country…
Reform UK Law & Order Press Conference https://t.co/aCaFlQMFxo
— Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) October 7, 2024
Nigel Farage kicked off, hammering “two-tier policing and justice“. He reminded the audience of the Manchester Airport incident, where the offenders violently assaulted the police, though the police were the ones that got the backlash for retaliating. Tice slammed the fact the assailants haven’t been charged yet, while the police held “great restraint” in only using their tasers. Tice claims sources tell Reform that someone in Manchester police withheld the footage of assailants attacking the police shortly after the incident…
All 5 MPs have signed a letter to the Home Secretary about ‘two-tier justice.’ They’ve threatened that if the Crown Prosecution Service don’t charge the Manchester Airport assailants, Reform will organise a private criminal prosecution against them…
They are also going to be releasing a party political broadcast called “Labour: The Movie“. It will be aired on ITV at 6:25 p.m. and BBC One at 6:55 p.m.
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As Guido predicted yesterday the pundits have poured as much praise as they can get away with on the disastrous implosion of Starmer’s Downing Street 93 days into government. Got to keep those new sources sweet…
Remember when Gray was the person be be cosied up to? Profiles flattered where they could: “One Labour figure said Gray had been a good listener“, “She’s pretty ruthless at timekeeping.” Now it’s Starmer and McSweeney’s turn to have the spinning done for them…
Lobby journalists pretend to be shocked by Starmer’s “ruthlessness” in getting rid of Gray. Guido doesn’t recall them spinning Cummings’ departure as Boris “bolstering his No 10 operation”…
Sue Gray has unceremoniously been ousted from Number 10, after nearly three decades of being in the civil service, and just three months into her role as Chief of Staff. She’s been given the new role of Prime Minister’s envoy for the “regions and nations”, aptly described by Tory MP Simon Hoare as “a bit like the Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief’s Chief Assistant.” The ‘most powerful woman in Britain’ no more…
To add salt to the wound for Gray, she’ll be taking a pay cut from her hard-negotiated £170,000 salary. And for her first outing, she’ll be shipped 500 miles from London to Scotland (exact location unknown) to attend the first Council of the Nations and Regions meeting this Friday, discussing the “shared challenges” and “opportunities” across the UK. One week in to her new job, she’s literally been sent as far away from Whitehall as possible…
UPDATE: Starmer’s spokesman refuses to confirm if Gray is even on the list for Friday’s meeting in Scotland.
Labour’s in free-fall over the Alli donations scandal, Number 10 is a circus (already forced to bin Sue Gray as Chief of Staff), and their new policies are sinking like a lead balloon. One would think CCHQ’s job attacking the government was easy. Yet somehow, they still manage to miss the mark…
Over the weekend, CCHQ decided to take a shot at the Winter Fuel Allowance cut, a policy that seems universally unpopular. They rolled out a video showcasing pensioners set to lose their allowance. Except instead of tugging at the nation’s heartstrings, the footage shows these ‘poor’ pensioners living in spacious homes – more comfortable than what many people, especially the young, can afford. They hardly appear to be hard-done-by little old folks shivering in the cold. One even appears to be wearing a solid gold Rolex…
This winter, pensioners will have to choose between heating and eating.
And that’s on Keir Starmer. pic.twitter.com/JMrqLyXtD8
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) October 4, 2024
Clearly Guido isn’t the only one who thought this was a little tone-deaf. In three days, the post got 20 million views, and only one thousand likes. Possibly the worst ratio in X history…
Some rising stars don’t burn as bright as others. New MP Hamish Falconer, who was immediately promoted to Foreign Office Minister and happens to be the son of New Labour heavyweight Lord Falconer, had his morning round debut this morning. It was one to forget…
On GB News Falconer failed to tackle an onslaught from Isabel Webster who skewered the government for the complete chaos inside Downing Street, giving away the Chagos Islands, and its non-existent mandate to hand inflation-busting pay rises to train drivers while withdrawing free cash from pensioners. Young Hamish had nothing to say part from that it’s all been a “success”…
Falconer has had glowing profiles from the Lobby recently including an eyebrow-raising Tatler deep dive. The Guardian fawned:
“Conscious of his privilege, he says that his advantageous start in life means that he has to ‘go further to demonstrate that I do understand the vast majority of families in Lincoln who are really struggling.'”
He certainly went somewhere this morning. Isabel finished:
“I would suggest that one of the first jobs that Morgan McSweeney does is choose a better candidate for the morning round because that was excruciating and I’ve interviewed a lot of politicians.”
There’s always next time…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”
