Boris Johnson was of course seeking to provoke a chorus of how unwelcome he would be when he suggested that he might attend the Durham Miners' Gala. But it is not an invitation-only or even a ticketed event. He should just turn up. Come on, Boris. I dare you.
In the meantime, you should follow up the restoration of the student nurse bursaries with the restoration of the Secretary of State for Health's responsibility for the health of citizens, a responsibility that was abolished by the infamous Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Then there is the mass homicidal Work Capability Assessment, which was introduced by the egregious Yvette Cooper, who with Keir Starmer was one of the two potential candidates for Labour Leader endorsed by the BBC on this morning's Today programme.
Cooper was not asked about her vicious, blood-drenched record at the Department for Work and Pensions. She never is. But put her on the spot by abolishing the WCA and forcing her to defend it. As for Starmer, cut the ground from under him by releasing Julian Assange, who has served his sentence for skipping bail, and the Swedish investigation into whom has been dropped.
This would be of a piece with your programme to keep onside, after Brexit, the areas that had delivered your overall majority. Tony Blair has been allowed out again, to demand that Labour oppose that programme from the Right.
Most Labour MPs agree with him that the failure to present a vision of permanent austerity at home and permanent war abroad, which is very much the vision of the EU, was what took Labour under Jeremy Corbyn from within two points of power in 2017 to the loss of North West Durham last week. Nothing to do with Brexit. Oh, no, of course not.
But Brexit is about to happen, leaving you with practically five years to fill in order to hold onto these seats. This is how to do it. And this is how to see off Cooper and Starmer before they even get started, along with the fact that Starmer, with Emily Thornberry, was of course the architect of Labour's disastrous Brexit policy.
As for the rest, Jess Phillips is easy, since she is both a racist and a man-hater, making her potentially a unifying figure between the voters that Labour held and the ones that it lost. Not, however, a unifying figure in Labour's favour. And you should offer some sort of role to Lisa Nandy, in the way that Gordon Brown gave one to Michael Ancram. Ancram continued to sit as a Conservative MP, and Nandy could continue to sit as a Labour MP.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Then there is the mass homicidal Work Capability Assessment, which was introduced by the egregious Yvette Cooper, who with Keir Starmer was one of the two potential candidates for Labour Leader endorsed by the BBC on this morning's Today programme.
Cooper was not asked about her vicious, blood-drenched record at the Department for Work and Pensions. She never is. But put her on the spot by abolishing the WCA and forcing her to defend it. As for Starmer, cut the ground from under him by releasing Julian Assange, who has served his sentence for skipping bail, and the Swedish investigation into whom has been dropped.
This would be of a piece with your programme to keep onside, after Brexit, the areas that had delivered your overall majority. Tony Blair has been allowed out again, to demand that Labour oppose that programme from the Right.
Most Labour MPs agree with him that the failure to present a vision of permanent austerity at home and permanent war abroad, which is very much the vision of the EU, was what took Labour under Jeremy Corbyn from within two points of power in 2017 to the loss of North West Durham last week. Nothing to do with Brexit. Oh, no, of course not.
But Brexit is about to happen, leaving you with practically five years to fill in order to hold onto these seats. This is how to do it. And this is how to see off Cooper and Starmer before they even get started, along with the fact that Starmer, with Emily Thornberry, was of course the architect of Labour's disastrous Brexit policy.
As for the rest, Jess Phillips is easy, since she is both a racist and a man-hater, making her potentially a unifying figure between the voters that Labour held and the ones that it lost. Not, however, a unifying figure in Labour's favour. And you should offer some sort of role to Lisa Nandy, in the way that Gordon Brown gave one to Michael Ancram. Ancram continued to sit as a Conservative MP, and Nandy could continue to sit as a Labour MP.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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