Labour’s NEC are hosting their ‘away day’ this afternoon, with a briefing from Ian Lavery and Andrew Gwynne on their internal review into the election. Sounds like Labour’s lengthy ‘period of reflection’ is over…
The crack-team of election losers will also delve into the party’s finances. Perhaps least surprising is the location of Labour’s ‘away day’: all the way away in… South London. Almost three miles away from Islington…
Andrew Gwynne’s attempts to tout Labour’s “climate emergency” credentials turned into an exercise in digging a coal mine-sized hole for himself over the new coal mine in Cumbria unanimously approved by Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories. He should probably have had a word with Jeremy Corbyn first…
More “clarity” from Shadow Communities Secretary Andrew Gwynne on Marr this morning, who said that Labour won’t consider tabling a motion of no confidence in the government until after the meaningful vote. Expect that line to last all of a few hours before Labour has to “clarify” it again. May hardly needs encouraging to delay the vote as long as possible…
Andrew Gwynne has suggested that Labour could go into a second referendum backing a Labour-style Brexit deal, before ‘clarifying’ Labour’s position with “let’s wait and see”. Whenever the Government’s position seems unclear, the Shadow Cabinet always seem determined to go one better…
Andrew Gwynne made a rook-ie error while attempting to play chess on a visit to a primary school in his constituency last week, with the Shadow Communities Secretary concluding: “all I can say is it’s rock hard and I’ve been beaten by a 7 year-old called Alfred!”
Guido is not surprised Gwynne was left looking a little board – on closer inspection it turns out that both players were playing without kings. Gwynne might want to Check the rules. Or perhaps it’s just a preview of the coming Corbynite utopia where the monarchy has been removed…
