Dear child demands spaghetti and gnocchi *combined*. St Nigella, forgive me for what I am about to do.... ✝️

A positive feeling about Bexley Labour's prospective new member. I feel bad about some local activist unrewarded for working for Khan and Starmer this year, but intelligence and work ethic that got Jeremy Fosten 🌹 into Durham will be very useful on the weak red bench.

Spain is nice, but one type of public infrastructure where Britain is much, much better is playgrounds. Norway has good ones too. How is France, I wonder?

For the record, Daniel Francis's offer to discuss his work in person had expired by Aug 31, 2024. I guess we will never know what goodies Belvedere and Bexley residents received in exchange for the over £200,000 paid to the councillor over the years.

Take that, Banksy.

As I've said before I'm a private renter. No security of tenure. High and ever increasing rents. Problems with dodgy landlords over the years. To have a *Labour MP* and former council leader be a slumlord is disgusting. For the party to turn a blind eye is even worse.

Was it the recent criticism of Daniel Francis, the mention of Bexley Labour's multi-landlord in the context of the Jas Athwal MP scandal, or both?

One of the things that's wrong with Bexley Labour: residents of richer, Tory-dominated south of Bexley "representing" the poor, Labour-leaning north. Here, you have 3 Sidcup residents visiting their constituents in Slade Green.

Remembering Ella Roberta today ❤️

Shadow welfare secretary Mel Stride tells Labour MPs: "Look to your conscience. These measures, you know in your heart that these measures are wrong." In 2012, the Tory govt capped benefits increases to 1%, well below inflation & introduced the “bedroom tax”. In 2013, household

Quickly, before Cllr Simon Fawthrop is awoken! Tony of Sidcup visits Petts Wood for the first time.

The Frankensign of Sidcup High Street. (Complete with grass growing through the pavement. Apparently, London Borough of Bexley has been "investigating" it since July 11).

... but if the Labour MP does something good, I have no problem praising it. Daniel Francis attended tonight's Bexley MPS SNT meeting, and was unafraid to talk to (or even challenge) the audience's #2 scandalist.

Some of the responses to Dan’s question highlight the fundamental misunderstanding so many make, or wilfully ignore, regarding pensions. We have to accept there is no government investment fund, wealth fund, savings account or separate pension provision. It all comes from tax. /1

Front page of Today’s FT. So many people are understandably telling Labour this. They really need to listen, in the country’s, and their own interests.

“He will hate this profile”: how donor Waheed Alli became a Labour fixer - great piece by Kiran Stacey theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Spot the woman. #feminism

I've been blocked from attending free-speech-loving Reform UK's conference in Birmingham today as a journalist, without them giving a reason I actually had a ticket, but it was cancelled. So I've been deplatformed. Farage usually has a thing or two to say about that, doesn't he?