ejh

West Country bumpkin. Views mine, all mine.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

NEW: Former Brexit Secretary Liam Fox has LOST to Labour in North Somerset.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Zero more sleeps. It's happening. Kick the bastards out.

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

Tory attacks on this are very strange, given that Rishi Sunak told LBC not even two weeks ago that he admires Starmer’s work/life balance.

“These jobs all take a toll on everyone’s family. He does a very good job of balancing work life and family life. That’s a nice thing.”

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

The Party that turned Number 10 into a giant lockdown party now wants to lecture others on work ethic?

The stench of their lies and hypocrisy is even more overwhelming than the vomit they left for the Downing Street cleaners.

Like them, we’ll clean up the Tories’ mess, too.

[North Somerset Labour Party @NSLabour]

North Somerset, don’t forget the part Liam Fox has played in Tory chaos over the last 14 years.

Don’t forget his Werrity scandal, don’t forget his expenses scandal, don’t forget his second jobs scandal, don’t forget his lobbying scandal, don’t forget his second home scandal.

[ejh @edjhayes]

He’s so sweet. It’s almost like he believes one month’s figures can explain away the last 14 years of Tory chaos that’s saddled us with the highest tax burden we’ve ever faced.

[Sir Liam Fox @LiamFox]

With low inflation and economic stability, this is no time to gamble with a high taxing Labour Party

[Margaret Hodge @margarethodge]

We shouldn’t be reliant on food banks. Vote Labour.

[ejh @edjhayes]

@LiamFox I’d ask if you had no shame, but the fact you are still an MP after your various disgraces over the years already answers that. Your removal from public office can’t come soon enough.

[Adam Kay @amateuradam]

For example, I never spent four billion pounds on unusable PPE.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

He left the D Day service alongside the leaders of France and America to do this shit. He's such a tiny little man and he makes us look miniscule too.

[North Somerset Labour Party @NSLabour]

The tactical vote sites show only Labour’s @Sadik4Pharmacy can beat the Tories in North Somerset.

Any vote for the Lib Dems or Greens is a vote to give Liam Fox five more years to work second jobs whilst North Somerset suffers.

https://t.co/IdrL8q3miL

[Darren Murphy @MrDarrenMurphy]

The Tories will have thought last night that today’s election coverage would be about tax but the election issue is now about Conservative dishonesty in general and Sunak’s lies in particular.

Debates reveal character. Sunak lied.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

Looking the public straight in the eye, Sunak deliberately chose to lie about Labour plans. Not once but repeatedly. Not as a slip of the tongue but on purpose. And he had been expressly told not to do so by the head of the Treasury. He’s desperate. He’s no better than Johnson.

[Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones]

In response to my letter, civil servants confirmed they had told Tory ministers they were not allowed to say their dodgy attacks on Labour were independently done by civil servants.

Last night Rishi Sunak did it anyway.

He lied to the British people.

He must apologise.

[Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @OhGodWhatNowPod]

Rishi Sunak’s closing statement sounded like the comforting pap that the Euthanasia Robot whispers to you as you fade away in some episode of Black Mirror. #itvdebate

[ejh @edjhayes]

@Samfr Thoughts on Liam Fox in North Somerset (neighbouring Rees-Mogg)? Not Cabinet now obviously, but must qualify as big beast? From memory MRP has Labour level, and boundary changes marginally favourable.

[Alex Kealy @alexkealy]

Does feel sort of mad that a Prime Minister who wasn't even a full ranking cabinet minister at the time of the 2019 election & is 20 points behind in the polls just gets to cancel the country's largest infrastructure project, which his party's manifesto committed to completing