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No better than the Westminster Labour party. Can anyone imagine Starmer being remembered in ten years time?

But he's boring as fuck! He's been un the post less than a year and already finds himself struggling to lawyer Boris at PMQs and missing the open goals that should be easily being scored when he gets to the dispatch box. He's also slowly finding the Corbyn issue starting to rear its ugly head again because he never properly sorted it out. And if your looking back decades remember that the time period your looking at included them being led by Tony Blair who was a three time election winner. If he makes it to 2025 I don't see Starmer beating the Tories as it stands.

At the moment I reckon it's more likely that a Labour win would be courtesy of the Tories throwing it away which is a definite possibility with the people they have at the moment, imo of course. 



ETA Farage has been very quiet recently, has her been struck down by Covid or something equally unpleasant?
He could easily continue to be a thorn in the Tories side.

A distant, elderly relative died recently and Mrs Tim asked me to pick up some condolence cards for his daughter and her kids (my cousins).
No problem, I was heading to WH Smith anyway.

I don't know about anyone else but in these virus times I feel like I shouldn't stand around perusing cards, etc for a long time for fear of being a roadblock, not helped by my local branch being quite small.
I couldn't immediately see the required cards and there were no assistants to hand so I was getting a tad flustered by the time I finally found them.
It was a bit weird that they were beside the 'Congratulations on your marriage' type cards but hey ho.
The language on them appeared correct - 'So Very Sorry', etc.
Another point is that the cards were only small, I didn't pick them up for a browse (because you don't do that now, do you) and there was just a choice of 3.

Anyway, back home feeling pleased with myself at which point Mrs Tim asked me why I'd bought them.

Turns out the first line of the card, very small, gold lettering was 'Thanks for the invite', followed by 'So Very Sorry To Miss It', finished off with 'Hope you have fun'.

Whoops!

That's really good service. We had some of our Velux glass replaced as the seals had gone, but we did have to pay. They were nearly 30 years old so that's good going. 

That's crazy.
Whichever of us opens the post just goes and washes their hands.
Seems pretty straightforward really.

www.leamingtoncourier.co.uk/business/changes-approved-for-caffeine-and-machine-pub-in-south-warwickshire-that-is-popular-with-petrolheads-3154831

Pleased about this. Will be great in the summer when they have barbecues and live music on too

Dont even do that tbh and we've yet to catch the rona from our post. It's hardly as if our postie's been licking it!

Best not to think about how many Covid outbreaks have occurred at food processing plants then!

It's thought that's down to communal transport to these sites..

Just spotted that last Thursday (5th March) was the 85th anniversary of the first flight of a Spitfire.

Just checking something at random...
the latest forecast opening date for the Elizabeth Line is during the first half of 2022 ! That means it will be getting on for 3 1/2 years late, presuming it doesn't slip any further

Non, no. In his case it's not 85 years but it is the same date !

Perish the thought but I reckon it's now probably 15 years or more since he got married... how time flies

That sounds virtually wonderfuel.