Apart from contracting covid before meeting with veterans, Labour’s candidate in Morecambe and Lunesdale has been making a lot of her local credentials. 2024 is the year of the “local” candidate, apart from if you’re Richard Holden…
Collinge’s material is filled with statements like: “From her local first-hand knowledge, her professional work, and her years of public service, she has the life experience to represent everyone in Morecambe and Lunesdale.” What she doesn’t care to mention is her carpet-bagging past, in which she bought a property in the constituency days prior to the last election. Collinge then proceeded to post about local issues from her previous (and still owned) home outside of the constituency for a year afterwards. The company she keeps doesn’t feature on election material either…
Collinge, formerly a Momentum-backed candidate, has photographed herself and been seen extensively out in public this year with disgraced Corbyn campaigner Ben Soffa. Soffa is formerly Labour’s Head of Digital Campaigns and was “moved on” after organising Palestine Solidarity Campaign protests on Armistice Day. Going around with a Labour persona non grata is quite the way to finish a farcical campaign…
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.”
