Labour have selected a corporate lobbyist, and former adviser to Keir Starmer named Chris Ward to stand in Brighton Kempton.
Ward works for a lobbying firm called Hanbury, which was set up by two Tories. One was the former PR lead for Vote Leave, Paul Stephenson. The other is former adviser to David Cameron, Ameet Gill.
He heads up what Hanbury calls their 'Labour Unit'. Which is designed to help companies navigate how to deal with the incoming Starmer government.
Clients of Hanbury include the gambling firm Flutter, Navitas Petroleum, and finance companies UBS and Blackstone.
It's basically a who's who of companies who would love direct access to someone in government.
The CLP had no say on Ward's selection.
He was named as their candidate following the barring of the left-wing MP Lloyd Russell Moyle. The ban came out of the blue from the NEC, with a letter informing him that an anonymous complaint had been filed regarding his conduct eight years ago.
As the investigation would run long after the election was finished, Lloyd Russell Moyle would not be able to appeal or clear his name in time.
Owen Jones has written about his dealings with Chris Ward, as they were close friends at one point. And it seems that Ward's main issue wasn't so much the Tories. But the Green Party and Caroline Lucas in particular.
Jones is now encouraging people in Brighton Kempton to vote for their local Green candidate Elaine Hills.
Since Carl Benjamin is back in the news, let me give a little more detail of what kind of a despicable excuse for a human being he is, beyond the joking about whether or not he would rape the Labour MP Jess Philips.
He thinks the private sector can do no wrong and businesses should be allowed to discriminate against whoever they like.
At least that was true until Twitter banned him for hate speech, and Patreon kicked him off for the same reason when he was making $12,000 per month.
He frequently referred to a young girl with down syndrome, as a "retard". In response to a video where the girl was talking about how upset it made her to be frequently called things like that.
He's been endorsed by the EDL, Breitbart, the neo-Nazi blog MoreRight, and white nationalist Richard Spencer.
Spencer described him as a great entry point in winning people over to the idea of white nationalism.
After the 2014 Isla Vista murders, despite the incel killer Elliot Rodger leaving behind a manifesto outlining his hatred of women, Carl Benjamin publicly blamed feminism. And in particular the YouTube feminist content creator Laci Green.
He's an open supporter of Alex Jones, having declared on Joe Rogan's podcast that Jones was "right about the gay frogs".
He's endorsed deranged conspiracy theories from the the Syrian chemical attacks being staged or not even really happening, to Hitler having escaped to Argentina at the end of the Second World War.
Although he claims to not be on the alt-right, he spread the conspiracy theory that Heather Heyer died of a heart attack, and not being struck by a car at the 2017 Charlottesville rally of Nazis.
When confronted on this on stage during a debate, he said "well there were lies on both sides".
He thought that it was possible to get D***** T**** to endorse GamerGate.
He's repeatedly lied about Black Lives Matter, and spread racist propaganda such as Paul Joseph Watson's claim that Muslims are trying to eliminate the white population of Britain.
He's very fond of using racist slurs. In particular the n-word.
His justification is a Chris Rock routine from his 1996 show 'Bring the Pain'.
A routine he no longer uses because he felt it was enabling racists to use that word.
He condemned the MeToo movement, and defended Harvey Weinstein as the real victim. Saying; "I think there were gold-digging whores who would accept fucking Harvey Weinstein for cash, and then we're hearing from the few that either didn't, or did and regret it."
He called for UKIP to become a party of full blown British nationalism. And used the slogan of "Service guarantees citizenship" from the movie Starship Troopers.
Failing to realise that the movie was a satire of fascists like him.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle, the MP for Brighton, Kemptown & Peacehaven has received an "administrative suspension letter".
The complaint was made anonymously, and made complaints about his behaviour eight years ago.
Due to the length of time it takes to investigate complaints by Labour, he has been informed that he will not be allowed to stand at the election.
He has stated that he intends to cooperate with the investigation to clear his name.
It does seem rather suspicious that someone on the left of the party gets this letter, with only a week before the selection process closes.
And this comes the day after Diane Abbott was told that she would be barred from standing.
I'm starting to wonder if this is how Labour is going to purge most of their left wing MPs before the election. With the NEC sending letters to inform them that they're barred, just before the nomination date closes.
Iain Dale has quit his job at LBC, as he hopes to be selected as a Tory candidate for the general election.
Dale is hoping to be selected as the candidate for Tunbridge Wells.
He had previously failed at the 2005 election when he stood in Norfolk North.
I do hope he gets the nod, and that the group Led By Donkeys stick up billboards around Tunbridge Wells of him assaulting a protester in 2013.
Which he admitted, and received a police caution for.
Lucy Allan has had the whip withdrawn from the Tories, after she started openly supporting Reform candidate Alan Adams in the Telford constituency.
Lucy Allan is the outgoing MP for Telford, having opted not to stand at the upcoming election.
Amazing that none of her previous actions warranted expulsion from the Tory Party.
Lucy Allan was recorded bullying a member of her constituency office staff who had been signed off for depression, to try and force her back to work early.
She was also caught up in "rustygate", after she fabricated a death threat from a constituent who had sent an email under the pseudonym Rusty Shackleford.
Allan added the words "unless you die" to a strongly worded email in opposition to her support of bombing Syria, to suggest she had been targeted by death threats for her politics.
The email had though been sent by a local Labour member, who showed that those words were not in the email he sent.
The Tories took no action.
And she was one of three Tory MPs who spread a doctored video from an EDL account, claiming that grooming gangs of Asian and Muslim men weren't prosecuted while Keir Starmer was DPP, because they didn't want to be seen as racist.
Allan arguably went further than her colleagues Maria Caulfield and Nadine Dorries, as she added commentary about how the edited remarks of Keir Starmer were what CSE victims were up against.
But Reform was the final straw when it came to the Tories and Lucy Allan.
Rachel Johnson spoke in favour of the Tory idea of reintroducing National Service. She tried to invoke the spirit of everyone doing what was right for the nation during the pandemic.
Just a reminder. She like her brother and father, breached lockdown rules for her own selfish interests.
In her case, she traveled to her second home to play tennis.
She also said the quiet part out loud though, about this being to get unpaid labour. As she thinks it should include forcing people to pick fruit.
James Cleverly meanwhile confirmed on Laura Kuenssberg's show that anyone who opts for the civil option of National Service, rather than enlisting in the military will not be paid for their time.
So this absolutely is about having unpaid labour to plug all the shortages the Tories have created in the emergency services.
Jesus Christ. I thought this was a joke from NewsThump or Private Eye.
But no. Rishi Sunak really is pledging to bring back compulsory National Service.
18 year olds would be given the choice to join the military full-time, doing community service one weekend every month with the police, NHS, or fire brigade.
I always find it funny when I hear people in their 50s and 60s bang on about bringing back National Service. Because none of them ever did it either.
It was abolished in 1960.
National Service was just the UK's name for conscription.
Presumably because they're insisting that people who don't join the military "volunteer" to work with the NHS, police, or fire service, this would all be unpaid labour.
Which I would hazard a guess is the Tories solution to solving the staffing cuts they've implemented to all of those services.
No need to pay a hospital porter, cleaner, or emergency services phone operator when you can force an 18 year old to do it for free.
Labour are reportedly looking for a new anthem to replace 'Things Can Only Get Better' as the theme for Keir Starmer's campaign.
So I thought I could suggest a few.
Liar - Henry Rollins
I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal - Eddie Guerrero's WWE theme
Asshole - Denis Leary
Creep - Radiohead
I'm A Cunt - from the TV show Mongrels
Hate Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe
Or if he would like to win over the likes of the woman who he said had a valid point when she called into his radio show with Nick Ferrari and spouted the Great Replacement and her desire live in an ethnostate, he could always go with White Power by Skrewdriver.