Speaking to ITV LibDem MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough Tom Gordon was excoriating about Ed Davey after the party lost votes in the North:
“It’s really frustrating when we hear the party leadership and Ed Davey talking about the LibDems has been the antidote to Reform. Well, in places like Wakefield where Reform had beaten us. I think we need a better message. And quite frankly, when we’re seeing stunts about drinking, you know, Labour and the Tories need to wake up and smell the coffee. Quite frankly, so do Liberal Democrats too because all’s not rosy with us up here in North.”
Talk has gone around for months that the LibDem MPs are growing increasingly unhappy with Davey. Everyone wants their own slice of leadership drama today…
Ed Davey’s advert for a new personal Chief of Staff has garnered a limited number of applications. Not much appetite in running the Labour meek coalition partner vehicle…
“The Chief of Staff is the Leader’s principal strategic adviser and senior aide, responsible for ensuring the effective operation of the Leader’s Office and supporting the Leader in delivering the Party’s political, parliamentary, electoral and organisational objectives.
This is a pivotal leadership role requiring political judgement, discretion, strategic oversight, and the ability to operate at pace in a complex, high-profile environment.”
Ed is looking for someone to run the entire LibDem operation with:
As of the end of Easter only 26 people had applied for the job on LinkedIn. Do you want to work for the most boring man in British poli- oh, have I lost you?
Ed Davey used one of his only two PMQs questions to accuse GB News of being “Reform propaganda“, and called for even more Ofcom censorship to stop GBN somehow “turn[ing] our great country into their vision of Trump’s America“. Just four days ago he gave a long form interview to the channel’s Chief Political Correspondent Katherine Forster, in which he repeatedly attacked Trump, insisted the US president was “out of control“, and claimed the “Liberal Democrats have answers“. This clip aired multiple times and was shared across the channel’s social media platforms to millions of people.
Apparently this is not good enough for Ed. Ofcom or even the Prime Minister needs to get involved. Forster was also the only national broadcaster to bother going to the LibDems’ spring conference. Given how terrible it was, maybe Davey wanted Ofcom to ensure absolutely no one knew it even happened…
Ed Davey has revealed the LibDems have no proposals for dealing with an oil price spike. Speaking on the Today Programme after raging against the King’s state visit to the US set for next month, the LibDem leader was asked: “What do you think government can and should do to protect consumers and to protect businesses?” What came next was several minutes of meaningless slop…
“The government needs to come forward with a plan… you’re right, Nick, it’s very difficult…
And people, when they come to pay, will say, well, who caused this? And it will be Donald Trump and, frankly, those British politicians, like the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch and reformist Nigel Farage, who’ve cheered on Donald Trump… Well, it’s not easy. And I basically said in the first half of my answer, Nick, that it’s really difficult…
You’ve got to work internationally. This is an international market… And we have some protection because we’ve invested in renewables… That is definitely the long term solution. In the short term, it is quite difficult…We’ll have to think really hard to work out particularly how we help our businesses and families who will be struggling with these higher bills.”
No recognition that British energy policy has specifically destroyed the country’s ability to respond to a short-term energy shock, one example being the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The UK’s electricity generation has fallen by a quarter since 2004 and restrictions on the ability to extract North Sea oil is a grave strategic mistake…
Ed Davey’s answer: “It’s difficult.” The deepest thinking of which he is capable…
He complains about never getting enough media coverage and then does this as soon as the mics are finally on. Even Sky News gave up. And just as he was talking about standing up to Elon Musk. It was going so well…
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.”