BLUNKETT'S HUG HYPOCRISY

Lord Blunkett has confessed to having breached one of the government's dystopian lockdown rules.  The former Blairite minister admitted to having embraced his wife's newborn granddaughter recently and declared:  "I don't really need the Great Leader's permission to cuddle a baby".  Here here.  But having said that, we are in no doubt that given the same opportunities afforded this government, the Blair regime - of which Blunkett was a key figure - would have wasted little time in stripping away such liberties.  And then some.

In fact when Blunkett was home secretary he described the concept of freedom thus: "We could live in a world which is airy fairy, libertarian, where everybody does precisely what they like and we believe the best of everybody and then they destroy us".  It has also been claimed that he once told the head of the prison service to deploy the army and 'machine gun' rioters at Lincoln Prison.

So if you watch the clip below, please don't feel that Blunkett is some kind of libertarian lockdown sceptic.  He's a hypocrite and a fraud.

Hug who you want, when you want.  No politician should ever have been given this much control in the first place.

BURGON VS BLUNKETT

Richard Burgon has clashed with Lord Blunkett over the party's attitude to working class voters and the merits of wokery.  Burgon was asked about recent comments by his party colleague Khalid Mahmood, who said that the party had been captured by 'university graduates with woke politics'.  Burgon's response pretty much summed up why Labour continue to fail, as he leapt to the defence of woke students and sneered at voters for failing to understand the benefits of woke politics.  Dear oh dear.

Blunkett disagreed with his fellow Yorkshireman's assessment of what wokery meant and linked the word instead to political extremists attacking statues, something that was being used to tar the Labour 

Party.  Clearly this was a reference to the Labour left's embrace of BLM violence.  Burgon then hit back at his Blairite opponent with a fierce rebuke of Keir Starmer's leadership, referring to 'shallow flag-waving' and posing for photos 'eating fish and chips and drinking beer'.  Burgon looked very pleased with himself having got the final word in.

This is a prime example of how Labour is going to tear itself apart in the months and, potentially, years to come.