Following Guido’s story earlier in the week that well-placed sources understand Corbyn is still refusing the vaccine, Starmer’s top aide has come out to agree with co-conspirators: Corbyn “should be honest” about his vaccine status. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Starmer’s new PPS Sharon Hodgson says:
“It’s not a privacy thing… if you’ve had the jab you should say and if he hasn’t then he needs to sort of be honest I suppose about that.”
As the Huffington Post notes, Corbyn’s office told Guido on Monday he “doesn’t normally comment on personal health matters”. His own Islington council area, however, now has the fourth lowest vaccine uptake of all local authorities, at just 38.3%. Surely Corbyn has a moral duty to come public on his vaccine status – providing he’s had one…
On 6th August it became mandatory to wear face masks indoors; on the 15th August Redditch Labour Party held a school uniform bank without social distancing, indoors, and most were not wearing face masks. That would be bad enough…
The public health cock-up was compounded when the party branch thought they could rectify the error in their publicity material with a touch of subtle photo editing. The result is hilarious.
They then accidentally uploaded the wrong version of the photo to their Facebook page, in which the virtual masks appear floating above each activists’ head. Not only did they think they’d got away with the howling error, they were so confident they made the Photoshopped image their Facebook page cover image…