CHAPATI’S OVER
AFTER his night on the beers and curry, Keir Starmer is deep in the brown stuff.
It is hard to see how “significant new evidence” now being considered by Durham Police’s criminal inquiry will point to anything else but a fixed penalty notice for Sir Beer.
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Leaked memos make it clear the event was pre-planned and organised in advance. Witnesses who were there say no work was done after the biryanis were washed down with lager.
Whatever they might claim, Labour DID lie about deputy leader Angela Rayner’s presence.
Hoist by his own petard, Starmer will be left swinging while officers take time to come to what should be a fairly obvious conclusion.
Having got on his high horse about the impromptu birthday party which surprised Boris Johnson and into which Rishi Sunak stumbled, Starmer’s breach looks a whole lot worse.
And having got every single call wrong on the pandemic — from demanding more lockdowns to backing the EU over vaccines — it is perhaps appropriate that it is Covid rules which could bring him down.
Voters may have been sickened by the partying in No10. But they made their minds up about Boris and Co’s appalling behaviour months ago. They won’t forgive rank double standards.
Red Wall Tory MP Lee Anderson nailed it perfectly: Captain Hindsight has become Major Hypocrite.
The local elections made clear Sir Keir is seen as a dullard London lawyer on doorsteps everywhere beyond the M25.
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He now faces choosing between what he repeatedly demanded of the PM — resign while being criminally investigated or resign after getting a fine.
Whatever. He looks a dud man walking.
UNION IN PERIL
THE UK — the most successful political union in the world — is in grave danger.
Sinn Fein became the largest party in Northern Ireland by doing what Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP did in Scotland.
Promise the earth and blame London for not coming up with the cash.
Sinn Fein now wants a vote on a United Ireland in just five years.
Unionists will refuse to share power with the Republicans unless there is an urgent fix to the Brexit Protocol.
Inevitably, the EU won’t help.
To avoid a dangerous vacuum, head off terrorism and support the Unionists, Boris Johnson shouldn’t wait.
He should trigger Article 16 and redraw the Protocol.
Livelihoods — and lives — are at risk.
SO GOOD FOR US
FOR anyone growing up in the 70s and 80s, Dennis Waterman was the epitome of hardman Cockney cool.
He could belt out a theme tune, too.
Sing one of his classics today.
