A third Tory MP has defected to Labour - Mark Logan, Bolton North East.... like others he's not standing at the next election & in this case is seeking to join Labour & support its campaign.
In case you've lost count that's now 78 Tory MPs who will not be contesting the election.... not exactly a vote of confidence in Rishi.
And, to be frank, surely Tory voters must be wondering, if even its own MPs won't support the party, why would they?
Fed up with election coverage (already)... well, why not check out this list of the top 20 Clint Eastwood films - its his 94th Birthday - and see if you agree with the ranking, or whether the Guardian has left out your favourite Eastwood movie.
It'll take your mind of the political stuff for a few minutes (and you need that, I know I did).
The battle between Brandon Herrera and Tony Gonzales was a masterclass in mutual mudslinging, but also reveals the limits of the influencer-turned-politician model, at least in this strangely cut swath of the Lone Star State.
Both Lauren Ashley Simmons, who trounced four-term incumbent Shawn Thierry, and Molly Cook, who narrowly beat House Representative Jarvis Johnson, drew upon the community they helped organize to turn out votes leading up to yesterday’s runoff election. It paid off.
Realising that they have had a few mis-steps with the election campaign so far, the new advisor is set to steer the Conservatives to election victory. The new advisor is reputed to be as cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford.
tldr: He was working on the Jan 6 investigation from the day he got there but was roadblocked by trump lackeys in the DOJ and FBI and had to overcome all of it to get things moving.
The legacy media continues to undermine democracy by giving voice to random #terrorists who promote #trump with cute slogans voiced on CNN this morning.