General Boles

I've been sent this absolutely *criminal* bar chart from back down in Surrey, there's so much wrong with it I could make a list.

Interesting also that the Conservatives are putting out squeeze messaging on Reform voters.

Badenoch’s most impressive trait is plain-speaking, born of clear thinking. Here, she is all coyness and innuendo. If she means Muslim voters, she should spell it out. A couple of rebuttals could then be put forward in the open. First, opposition to this war is not confined to Muslims, as she might find out in the coming weeks. Second, her party has for decades been sensationally bad at construing the British “interest”. Examples include its support for the Iraq war and a Brexit that most voters regard as a mistake.

Clear what now?

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I thought the Easter ninja was very well acted

Coming soon to a Rupert Lowe Facebook ad near you

Moses rather famously did *not* lead the Israelites into the Promised Land

When you make it back from Ibiza without ending up in hospital

New Holyrood voting intention polling out, for those who enjoy that kind of thing. Most interesting bit, IMO, is that 40% might still change their mind (up from 31% at a similar point in 2021).

Evacuation latest: Keir Starmer tells MPs that 1000 Brits have already arrived back home in UK from UAE on commercial flights, with eight more leaving today. A government charter flight is leaving Oman today with two more in coming days.

Thus far it's still somehow a less chaotic leadership rollout than Your Party.

Be glad of Starmer’s caution over Iran Bellicose critics of the UK prime minister have learnt nothing from the recent past

"On the foreign front, Labour has fixed some of the vandalism of the post-Cameron Tories through such innovative ploys as deigning to visit the second-biggest economy on Earth."

That isn’t going to buff out.

Are we 100% sure the regime itself actually wants the regime to survive? This seems idiotic

Go on Kemi, give us "we want eight and we won't wait" for old times' sake #PMQs

Badenoch walked right into that: "I wasn't asking about evacuations" looks extremely callous and indifferent when UK citizens are being evacuated from the regions

Rupert Lowe I’m not a ‘monster’ – I’m proud to lead the only party that puts Britons first

First rule of comms, don't repeat the ac.....oh you already have

Got to say, this is both an unedifying and an unimpressive performance from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs today. She's trying to pressure on Iran but it feels like she's entirely ignoring the answers to stick to a bizarre script. And giving Starmer free hits in the process.

It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.

It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.

So much will be said about all this in the coming days, but IMO the biggest takeaway is that James Watt and Martin Dickie each pocketed more than the price BrewDog was eventually sold for, while 500 hardworking staff are now out of a job & 220k equity punks don't get a dime.

Absolute charlatans.

I would have been so tempted to flick a Churchillian v-sign at the press as they yelled about Trump's latest outburst

one for @rentouljohn.bsky.social #QTWTAIN

"ok Robin, we're going to introduce you as our latest defector, try not to look evil"

"excellent"

I felt the need to write to my MP yet again

For Iran, Russia's lackluster response in its hour of need should come as no surprise.

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Strictly Come Dancing comes to Westminster

A chance to learn about pivot turns from the experts

Wait until Mark Francois hears about this bsky.app/profile/lnt....

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"ok General Boles, we've specced up your new MacBook and it comes to £7,349"

"great and that includes everything I need does it?"

"well........."

CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran and the Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish lea...

This by the brilliant @natashabertrand.bsky.social is probably the most important strategic story of the day.

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