Black and Blue

Of course black voters are less likely to support Joe Biden with Kamala Harris on the ticket than they were before he had officially picked her. Harris's parents were both first generation immigrants, and she has no connection to the South. 

For the second time, the Democratic Party has told one particular ethnic group, one of the oldest in the country and predominating over quite a large area, that it alone can never aspire to the highest office.

To ice the cake properly, it has done so by nominating someone who used to pride herself on her proficiency at framing black men for capital crimes. And that brings us to Keir Starmer. 

Starmer has single-handedly created the Black Wall ripe for collapse, even if that collapse were brought about only by mass abstention. Arguably, he created the Red Wall, too, since these seats had voted for Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, and they would have done so again if Corbyn had not capitulated to Starmer on Brexit.

Only Merseyside, and especially Liverpool itself, really held out, because there they hate Boris Johnson. But they hate The Sun more. Yet Starmer is openly desperate for The Sun to endorse him. With enough of Rishi Sunak's spending, and with the right candidates, then that desperation, never mind if The Sun ever did endorse Starmer, ought to be enough to turn even the Mersey blue again.