Appointing John Healey as Chancellor is a big red flag.
There's no evidence he supports any sort of transformative economic agenda.
He does support hiking diverting money from the NHS, education and frontline services in favour of bombs, though!
The joke isn't the bin. The joke is pretending the man inside it is some random eccentric. Jonathan David Harvey is an Oxford-educated writer with three decades at the heart of the BBC comedy establishment, writing for programmes such as The Thick of It, Have I Got News For You and Yes Minister. He's won awards, been celebrated by the media, and is hardly an unknown outsider.
So let's stop pretending Count Binface is just a bloke who wandered into politics wearing a wheelie bin.
The costume is the gimmick. The career behind it is anything but.
Westminster psychodrama isn’t what real politics is about. Politics is about the everyday reality of people’s lives.
My speech yesterday on the record level of homelessness in our society.