Wes Streeting jokes at Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards (paraphrasing): "There's been a spate of phone thefts around Westminster lately... so watch out for this person"
And Louise Haigh is the photo behind him.
If the leader of the Scottish Labour Party doesnโt know that councillors canโt work for the council they get elected to then we have a big big problem of basic competence in the guy who wants to be FM.
Spoke to Anas Sarwar about the Glasgow NorthEast by-election chaos. He denies it's Labour's fault. He's questioning the advice given to Mary McNab by the council. โSo I don't think this one's on the Labour Party, to be honest," he said. "I think there is a wider administrative issue here." @heraldscotland https://t.co/pDYJnUAK8Y
BREAKING: Another costly by-election looms after one of Glasgow's newest councillors was disqualified from office four days after being elected. Mary McNab fell foul of election law after failing to quit her job with the local authority. https://t.co/kv4lOjgrGn
And the returning officers get on stage 10 times throughout the day, none of this โthis guy๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝs elected, the rest of you are losersโ stuff we get here.
Cannot beat an Irish election, sitting watching count 7 come up and trying to work out if Labour voters 5th preferences will be enough to get some independent into 4th place in a 3 seater with 4 more rounds to go while knowing you know bugger all about any of it.
The final seat in Dublin Central is being predicted to be between Independent Gerard Hutch & Labourโs Marie Sherlock - with Malachy Steensonโs transfers vital for Hutch
Iโve said this before but I am always amazed that Irish media report the ballot box samples from election counts as hard info open to the public, over here itโs prized info you keep under lock and key!
Watching the RTร exit poll stuff, the transfer rates between FG & FF are unreal, each are picking up about a third of the others 2nd prefs. Unheard of.
SF and FG almost level at 21.1% and 21%, with FF on 19.5%, exit poll suggests. Margin of error 1.4% | Follow #Election24 live updates here https://t.co/YtYxwOqvBP
Louise Haigh has been a top tier Labour frontbencher, she was a really good shadow and was the best cabinet minister they have IMO. If this stuff has come from her own side itโs total self immolation.
Heโs just channeling Jeremy Thorpe for the 21st century really, a lot of bullshit banter and larks, although that also means next he orders a gangland execution but ends up killing the dog.