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So nobody& #39;s watching, but best I can tell Labour& #39;s theoretically entirely winnable campaign for the West Midlands mayoralty is utterly imploding: half the staff have quit in a flurry of unpaid bills, flyers absolutely riddled with typos because there& #39;s nobody to proof etc
In 2017, Andy Street beat Sion Simon in the second round 50.4% to 49.6% - there were less than 4,000 votes in it. And that was a terrible electoral cycle for Labour. This should have been an easy pick up!
Inevitably people are trying to put a factional gloss on this, but I don& #39;t think the blame lies with Starmer or the Labour right, any more than Sion SImon& #39;s being rubbish was the fault of Jeremy Corbyn. The problem isn& #39;t the Labour right. The problem is Liam Byrne.
I keep thinking of the 2008 "working with Liam Byrne" memo, and how it suggests a man who is unselfconsciously rude to retail staff.
Also - he& #39;s 38 here! 38! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/nov/17/liam-byrne-minister-diva-news">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...
This is a fair point, and also I am not sure I have ever called an election right in my life, so Rob may be onto something https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1381579073848233990">https://twitter.com/robfordma...
anyway if you are someone who is close to Labour& #39;s West Midlands mayoral campaign and you want to bitch about it my DMs are open
