Politics watch - past and present

No matter how badly his government performed, no mud ever stuck to prime minister Tony Blair’s hands. And now, as he circles the globe adding cash to his back pockets, we find out that not even stamp duty will stick to Teflon Tony’s hands.

Tony and Cherie Blair did not have to pay £312,000 in stamp duty when buying a £6.45m London townhouse, recently leaked documents show.

The ex-Labour prime minister and his barrister wife bought the property as an office for her business in 2017 by buying the offshore firm that owned it.

Mrs Blair said the sellers had insisted the building was sold in this way.

Gosh that was really terrible luck Cherie.

 

A Tory MP has apologised for joking about planting ‘a bomb’ in the office of the Labour Party’s female chair.

North Wiltshire MP James Gray made the remark about Anneliese Dodds during an exchange in a private MPs’ WhatsApp group ahead of the recent Labour Party conference, The Mail on Sunday reported.

In the WhatsApp group, Conservative MP for High Peak Rob Largan, had asked his colleagues: ’Does anybody know where Anneliese Dodds’ Commons office is based? I need to deliver something to her office.’

Mr Gray replied: ’A bomb, perhaps’

The MP, founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Armed Forces, has since apologised for the comment.

Long days and hard work will always affect the intellectual powers of any man or woman. I just can’t put my finger on the reason behind Gray’s remark.

 

Speaking at a Labour Party conference event recently, the deputy Labour leader was reported to make some strident comments about Tory politicians. In doing so she certainly caused a stir, and perhaps made all of the former Labour voters in the north of England think hard about building the 'red wall' back up again behind them, to protect their recently secured ‘scum status’ from any future predatory assault.

Rayner: “I’m sick of shouting from the side lines, and I bet youse lot are too. We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, absolute pile …of banana republic…Etonian…piece of scum…and I held back a little…that I have ever seen in my life”.

If you have been misquoted in any way Angela, I apologise.

But the expressed opinion does perfectly illustrate the benefit of an education based on ‘street language’.

 

And finally, despite looking very hard back in 2016, I never got to see the other side of the Boris Bus, where the slogan, 'Period of Adjustment' was painted loud and proud.

No matter, we have plenty of fuel down here on Exmoor and I'm not worried about the cutting of cabbages in Cambridgeshire, as we are self sufficient in all vegetables. But if you get short of anything BoJo, I'll sort something out for you until we are all fully adjusted.