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I bet the doyen of disaster capitalism Jacob Rees-Mogg's offshore investment trusts have snaffled a load of defence industry stocks in anticipation of lovely government contracts coming their way.

Rishi does tend to repeat phrases from the Tory playbook in a very predictable way, whether they are applicable or not. A lot of the time it's like having a robot as P.M. His plan plainly isn't working as we have just go into recession, inflation has stopped falling and Tory voters are staying...

"Mid-term by-elections are always difficult for incumbent governments" The words "mid-term" are doing an awful lot of lifting there. We're now into Year 5 of a 5-year parliament. By law there needs to be a General Election by 28 Jan 25. And when Rishi says taxes are coming down, that's...

I wouldn't describe this as corruption, more complacency and lack of professionalism. These people should be proud to serve the public, they really should be policing themselves. I am all in favour of having politicians in places where they have industry expertise, and if they DO have industry...

You can imagine the French running this story on their equivalent of 'Mock The Week'. One of the saddest parts is that a bottle of wine is usually shared, whereas a pint of booze is normally consumed by an individual. Indeed, the pint bottle of wine is - in many ways - the perfect metaphor...

This wine story is SO Brexit. Let's change the industry standard, cause problems where none previously existed, get less of something whilst paying the same price and label it as 'Chateau Du Brexit Benefitte'.

Another quarter goes by with bugger all growth. That's 6 quarters in a row. That miserable run started with the return to normality after Covid when, arguably, the effects of Brexit - without being obscured by Covid - began to play out. At what point do our politicians actually put their...

So we've recalled our Climate Change Minister from the culmination of a crucial global COP28 meeting so that he could contribute to a vote that the Government won with a comfortable majority of 44. What a f*cking shambles.

I thought Rishi said it would be a free vote and the MPs would not be whipped, therefore no pairing?

Given this is a free vote, with so many Tory MPs wavering on this Rwanda bill you wonder whether this terrible snub to our commitment to climate change might cause one MP - perhaps more - to change their mind and vote against Rishi.

It is interesting to note that in the 2 years since the Partygate story broke and the Tories have been in meltdown the polls indicate that share of the vote for the Lib Dems and the Greens has flatlined. This is an indicator that the majority of voters see English politics as binary. Only...

I'm looking forward to dinner tonight, we're having my favourite Toad In The MP.

In 2016 the government and civil service carried out a 3-day 'war game' exercise known as Operation Cygnus to simulate a pandemic atrocity with the express aim of preparing the UK for such an attack. Yet a mere 4 years later - and still with the same Government and civil servants in place -...

Quite literally, they're down to the bare Bones...

The thing about Labour's return to electability is that even under Corbyn they always had a decent core of MPs with a few stars on the rise that could turn it around and return the party back from the wilderness of the far left towards the centre. The party - and Starmer - have made a series of...

It will be interesting to see how these factors play out, and if Labour get an outright majority. If they don't, or if it is small, then it will be in their long-term interest to reform the electoral system. I can see the SNP and Lib Dems doing business with Labour but not the Tories, so there...

The next Tory leadership battle will be an irrelevance. It will take them at least 5 years and multiple leaders before they find any sense of direction. Their green credentials are in tatters and they've lost the middle ground They've also purged their party of anyone sympathetic to Europe...

When it gets to the stage a governing Tory Party is content for a recession to happen you know something is fundamentally wrong. They are arguably more played out than Labour were under Michael Foot, they need to go back to the drawing board and create a New Conservatism.

I agree with this, and I think you could add tax to your list. There is a narrative in this country that has almost become culturally accepted that tax cuts are good, tax rises are bad. However, the majority of people would agree that public services have worsened, were not brilliant to...

Indeed. And - frustratingly - many voters will put up with his brand of Tory shit because they know their place, he isn't Liz Truss and "it's better the devil you know".