Hydration break.

Good evening Weybridge! Nice set-up here.. #gelovejuzza07 #theflintgate

Fuck yes.

If Burnham wins Makerfield Starmer is toast. And he knows it. So why put the country through further months of instability and infighting? What happened to country before party and self interest?

My interview with @AlistairCarns - who warns Labour has “one chance” to change “I don’t think we could have got this more wrong – but we’re in it now. My goodness, make the change once if you’re going to, get on with it and get the country back on track" theguardian.com/politics/202…

'Yes Sir, I Can Boogie!' 🎶 Scotland fans party at Fenway Park! ⚾️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #BBCFootball #FifaWorldCup

Excuse grammar..and the joke!

Went out for lunch earlier. I asked the waiter if fish was in the specials. He said, no but he was once the singer with Marillion.

I am flying tomorrow to Evian in France with the prime minister for what will be the most surreal summit of world leaders of his - and my - career. And that is because Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister is conditional on whether Andy Burnham becomes a Labour MP on Friday and then how fast he moves to unseat the PM. Starmer and his ministers do their best in public to pretend that they are governing as normal. In private his colleagues are explicit that he is in limbo, unable to have confidence that he will remain PM for many weeks or even days longer. So although this summit of the leaders of the G7 richest economies has an important agenda - re-opening and policing the Strait of Hormuz, reinforcing support for Ukraine, reducing European AI dependence on the US (so graphically manifest in Washington’s order to Anthropic to shut down Fable) - none of the leaders know if Starmer is there as the now-and-future PM or a temporary caretaker. The PM has said that he will fight Burnham if he launches a leadership challenge. But his cabinet colleagues tell me they don’t know if that is what he feels he has to say, to maintain a semblance of authority, or whether he means it. One minister tells me the prime minister would lose badly in a head-to-head contest against Burnham. “He would be humiliated” said the minister. “He has been told that. Whether he believes it is another thing.” Another minister says the mortal blow was the resignation as defence secretary, John Healey. Before Healey revealed himself to be unwilling to serve a PM unable to find the money deemed necessary by Healey to mend the UK’s overstretched defences, ministers were reluctantly rallying around Starmer. No longer. “What was half-hearted support for the PM has more-or-less gone,” said the minister. “He could try to replace those ministers he feels have been most disrespectful to him, like Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood, but that would probably be the final nail in his own coffin.” Starmer is seen as isolated from most of his colleagues, seeking solace and advice from his attorney general Richard Hermer and his former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney - whose informal return to the centre of government alienates many Labour MPs, because of his central role in the debacle of Peter Mandelson’s stint as British ambassador in Washington. This period in purgatory will stretch through this week, but ministers believe the moment of Starmer’s fall or redemption will be next weekend. If Burnham wins decisively in Makerfield, reversing the seemingly decisive shift to Reform of the local elections just a few weeks ago, ministers expect that Labour MPs will want an orderly transition from Starmer to Burnham, without the chaos and uncertainty of a lengthy contested leadership election. Burnham and Starmer will therefore engage in a political dance, assessing how far the other will go to take the party to the brink of that messy contest. What happens if they can’t agree a transfer of power, if Starmer does what he says and insists Burnham puts up in a formal contest or shuts up? “That status quo could not last,” says a minister. “The prime minister’s authority is too weakened. There would be a contest, maybe triggered by another candidate.” The prime minister is said to be plotting a survival strategy, as if it were a game of chess. But none of his colleagues - or at least those to whom I have spoken - think he can win.

Fuck me; recall watching Scotland's first WC game of 1998 game after I had my final exam at Uni. Amazing it's 28 years ago as I look and feel so young... 😬

5 days to go in Makerfield.. Burnham or bust, I fear, for Labour and the UK or it's the fake neo-socialist frog-faced race-riot dog whistling fucker in No.10 in 2029. I get the arguments re not changing leader; suboptimal. But sometimes you have to. Can't sleep-walk ala Biden.

Good evening Weybridge! Nice pint, and it should be for 8 (EIGHT) pounds. #gelovejuzza07 #oldcrown

The Government should call time on the Triple Lock. The policy has been far too expensive, failed to reduce poverty, and is unhelpfully arbitrary. Read the full report here➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6

America’s World Cup hero of last night, Folarin Balogun, is only allowed to play for the US national team because his heavily pregnant Nigerian mother was refused permission by US airlines to fly to the UK, and so the first two months of his life were - by accident - in Brooklyn. It is pretty much inconceivable that if Trump’s immigration enforcement had been in place that Balogun would have been permitted to be born in America. Draw your own conclusions

Declan MacManus is one of the most overrated artists of all time.

Good evening Twickenham! Love this pub and vista. #gelovejuzza07 #whiteswan

And he will still be miserable and full of hate. All that money and this is how he chooses to live his life. Not helping others but advocating race wars. Fuck that cunt.

"Farage doesn't want to be the man the grenades are thrown at – he wants to be throwing them". Nigel Farage says he's the only person popular enough to become PM "for now", but could he duck out if scrutiny on him and his finances doesn't relent? @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall

In the meantime, just made some Adidas trainers out of my cat MeMe :

Having usual "others on summer holiday outside UK" crash. So predictable! I guess highlights my inadequacies: Long term fllwers may know I dont fly/ferry/eurostar due my condition/ claustrophobia. It's a first world problem. Will get head out me arse and remember how lucky I am!