A reminder that 2023 saw raw sewage pumped into North East Hertfordshire watercourses for over 4,000 hours, with the Cottered Brook, the Weston Tributary, and The River Quin the worst affected. Labour is taking positive steps towards reining in polluting water companies.

“I will do everything in my power to deliver safety & security for working people in Britain”. But children, sick, disabled, in education, retired…? Losers? Oh for a PM who sounds less like AI! He'd be happier too... eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Tim Glenton for the Liberal Democrats, in third place with only 61 votes. So the Greens get on with a seat they were always likely to win, the Tories are kept out, the LibDem name is on the ticket and honour is satisfied. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

'Not Spots' are NOT acceptable 🤳 If you're in North Norfolk, tell me about any areas where the mobile signal is abysmal ⬇️ Email me at: [email protected]

🚨 Starmer should heed Blair who is spot on ✅ Brexit has marched through a whole phalanx of PMs, each with a new plan to “make it work”—all have failed. A rational leader would conclude the project itself is the problem. #BrexitReality #RejoinEU

Storm at Westminster: Welfare bill rebellion. Reform splitters. Nigel Farage's run-in with the Albanian PM And much more from #pecksniffsdiary eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Labour's rebels may not all be Macbeths, but they have followed his lady’s advice to “screw up your courage to the sticking point”: and once a rebel, then the second time becomes easier. Pecksniff eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

'It is no part of my job … to put before the Commons proposals for the expenditure of public money. The function of the chancellor is to resist all demands for public expenditure made by his colleagues.' Rachel Reeves? Actually a predecessor. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

The PM has scolded his cabinet for leaking against Morgan McSweeney and made clear his chief of staff is safe. So they will tough it out. Pecksniff eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Labour's rebels are mostly new MPs, their optimism and shiny ideals still untarnished. The government’s treatment of them has come as a shock to many, and after allowing time for courtesies, they are not having it. Pecksniff eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Be sure when there are rumours to be revealed, then your humble diarist will be the first to the ink well. We’ll know the game is up when Death on a pale horse contributes to the debate. Pecksniff eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Even if the phrase wasn’t intended as a dog whistle reference to Enoch Powell, it suggests alienation, and the PM had no business using it. He should be master of his own words and not just blurt out whatever is put in front of him. Pecksniff eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

We can be sure nobody has ever mistaken Nigel Farage (Clacton) for a gentleman. His chosen cologne of eau de fag ash alone gives him away. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Jenny Riddell-Carpenter understands the malaise we all feel isn’t about red lines or a need for growth. Our frustrations lie much deeper: we ache for change to a more generous-spirited and outward-looking country, where things sometimes work. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Andrew Lewin urges Keir Starmer to take radical measures – good luck with that – and points out that: “It’s also a little bit less talking about the G7, a little bit more about groceries.” eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Immigration is a subject the right have seized and made their own, yet there is all the evidence the government needs to take back the narrative and tell a different story. But they daren't. #PecksniffsDiary eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

There has always seemed something maladroit and inherently disreputable about Mr McMurdock. He looks like a maquereau, or the kind of man who would be thrown out of a fish and chip queue. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Imbuing your average wannabe Reform councillor with any sense of public service must be like trying to teach dialectical materialism to a mollusc. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

Do the LibDems support joining the single market or a customs union? If so, say so, loud and clear, not whisper it when they hope nobody is listening. eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/peck…

"Today I am travelling to Great Yarmouth where, my Bradshaw's Guide tells me, the local MP stands all day by the sea shouting at rowing boats"