Who'd have her?
I was delighted by the news that yet another Troy MP has defected to the Labour party, until I discovered who it was.
To say that Natalie Elphick has had a long and very fast journey to the Labour party is putting it mildly. She was the kind of Tory most Labour die hards use pictures of for darts practise.
There are two sides to any argument and many commentators have pointed out that most people know nothing about her and will just see the headline about a defection and be impressed by that. The other argument is that she is poison and therefore damaging to the Labour brand.
I tend to agree with the latter argument and in fact I think it would have been far better to have had her announce she was joining the Labour party, only to find out they wouldn’t have her. Humiliation being good for the soul.
Still it is a bit rich for the Tory party to say good riddance to her, they have many more like her and far worse; who are straining at the leash to join Reform.
Maybe that would have been the right solution all along, One of those rejection letters that Oxbridge colleges send out along the lines of “Awfully nice of you to apply and all that, but we think your obvious talents wold be better suited to Farage FE College”
The Tory party still takes a beating, Reform doubles its MPs and Labour aren’t left with a bad taste in the mouth.
If Reform would have her, of course.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
Ministers have failed to implement laws designed to improve the quality of rivers, lakes and coastal waters in England, the post-Brexit environmental watchdog has found. In a critical report, the Office for Environmental Protection on Thursday said most of the pollution in England’s waterways could be addressed through the water framework directive, in place for two decades. The OEP said the directive, which still applies despite Britain’s exit from the EU, provided a “sound basis to manage and monitor the water environment”. But it said the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Environment Agency watchdog had failed to apply the law and were therefore “not on track” to meet goals on improving water quality. More than four in five rivers, lakes and other surface waters in England are neither in “good ecological condition” or “on a trajectory towards it”, the regulator said in its report. OEP chair Dame Glenys Stacey said the failures were “deeply concerning” and called on the government to address them urgently.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
Ministers haven’t enforced EU-based environmental laws which might have cost implications for their money-grabbing utility buddies. Really, could one be less shocked?