A day of huge mourning for the Far Right in the UK. Not only was the Huntingdon train stabbings not the terrorist/asylum seeker/immigrant atrocity they’d hoped and prayed for, here is the hero of the day:

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.

I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

I think Peston should apologise for this outrageous framing. Not a serious show that any of us should be going on until this kind of nonsense stops.

Farage: epic grifter

Jogging past a local private primary school this am, observed a long line of SUVs, each one attended to by teachers basically acting as a hotel porter. Kids escorted by an individual teacher from their idling cars into school. Seriously.

And all I can think of is quadrupling VAT on school fees.

Kent Labour source: "We only need 10 more defections in Kent [County Council] and [Reform] won’t have overall control. At the moment it’s 50-31"

"Whips lost:
🟣 1 in court for allegedly threatening to kill wife
🟣 ⁠1 to UKIP
🟣 ⁠1 investigated for lewd comments
🟣 ⁠1 for being anti-[leader] Kemkaran"

Councils are increasingly focussed on acute services (social care, homelessness) used by few people. All the median voter sees is that pot holes arent fixed + libraries are closed. @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social argues that Labour's reelection chances will be harmed if they don't fix council finances

AI can be such a congenital liar at times.