New Chums, Old Scums

There is of course every possible sensible and moderate reason for the CEO of Team Starmer to posture for the scumbag press. Quite aside from their shared relationship with the truth, Team Starmer has made no secret of its preference for courting the kind of people who vote for Natalie Elphicke, and its corresponding contempt for those who might prefer the likes of Faiza Shaheen or Diane Abbott. Nevertheless, the Labour candidate for Liverpool Riverside has volunteered herself for the blacklist by criticising the leadership for buying advertising space in the Murdoch Sun. Much of the constituency has never forgiven the "newspaper" for its fabrications about the Hillsborough disaster; and when Team Starmer was still making some sort of pretence at caring about Labour's base the Dear Leader made one of those gossamer pledges of his, which soon went the usual way of such ephemeral things. In mitigation, a party spokesbeing pointed to the fact that the concerns of Merseyside residents had been casually shrugged off by the grown-ups as early as last year.