Oh Goody, Another One

Of course it is always a pleasure when Team Starmer makes a new promise, especially when its source is Michael Gove. The shadow farming minister has proclaimed that a Labour government would end the use of thiomexotham, a pesticide which kills bees, thereby fulfulling a pledge made by the jabbering homunculus during the first rah-rah on the sunlit uplands and broken by the Government four years later. The ban has been submitted for inclusion as a manifesto policy, which might well qualify it as the sort of thing about which Team Starmer would think very seriously and look thoroughly solemn before dismissing it as fiscally heretical and pragmatically unsensible. Meanwhile, there remain slightly more than twenty-eight billion other little reasons for not getting too excited just yet.