A laugh a minute

+The topsy–turvy world of politics is certainly delivering a few laughs at least. Today’s news sees the slayer of Ed Balls, Dame Andrea Jenkyns jumping into Reform, in a bid to become Mayor of  ‘Greater Lincolnshire’ (greater than what I ask?). Naturally, Nigel Fartage was jubilant: ‘Speaking at a press conference this morning, Farage said: “Now we said that when we hit 100,000 members the lucky winner would go out for a pint for Lee Anderson. Now I fear that was deeply inaccurate. The use of the singular strikes me as being very unlikely with Lee. And by sheer coincidence the 100,000th member happens to be a former Conservative Member of Parliament."' (GB News 28/11/24) What a prize! A pint with 30p Lee—does he know the price of a pint these days?

+Other news: Lord Mandy (see yesterday’s blog) actually came fourth in the race to be Chancellor of Oxford University, that is he came last. A fitting result. Elsewhere Labour is doing poorly in local elections, a rather silly petition for a new general election is attracting millions of signatories and even the Tories are doing better in the polls. Has this been the shortest honeymoon on record? For some reason lots of people seem to think Keir Starmer is a liar.