Well, that took some guts, didn’t it? The obsessively ambitious Robert Jenrick was dumped from the Conservative party the moment Kemi Badenoch got wind of his planned defection to Reform UK, which left the self-styled Tory “tough guy” who relished tackling fare dodgers on video looking like little more than a treacherous turncoat.
And now the whispers in Westminster are growing ever louder: Badenoch means business. A little over a year into the job, she now regularly bests Starmer at PMQs – which resulted last week in the PM badly delivering a supposed gag about the Kama Sutra that belonged to a Carry On movie from the 1970s. There is much work to be done and ground to be recovered – which, by the way, she is the first to acknowledge – but Kemi is increasingly displaying that if the right of British politics could be up for grabs, she could be the ‘right’ person to do it.
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When are political promises much like trains? When they’re said to be on the way, but never get to the platform.
And that is precisely why the government must deliver to the folk of the North of England on its promise to radically upgrade rail services. If not, they deserve to be shunted into the sidings.
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Some residents in parts of Kent and Sussex unfortunate enough to rely on South East Water could enter their second week without any supply of running water. They also endured more than a week prior to Christmas without any supply. Time to turn off the cash taps to company boss Dave ‘The Drip’ Hinton, who picks up around £450,000 a year.
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The bravery of protesters who have taken to the streets in much of Iran calling for the downfall of the murderous, decrepit government is beyond words.
But, as images are published of piles of corpses and the death toll is estimated to be approaching 12,000, where are the demonstrations and calls for justice? And why aren’t we hearing celebrities such as Ken Loach, Olivia Colman and Dawn French voicing tear-laden commentaries of these horrific events?
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What is the point of Ed Miliband? His promised cut in our energy bills failed to materialise, and now he is to lock us into a deal where we could pay more for wind power than for gas for the next 20 years. Fair to suggest he’s ‘blown’ it?