Daily Round Up

First up we actually have a Brexit Party candidate for Middlesbrough now. A youngish woman called Faye Clements. No idea who she is, but it appears from her social media that she's a costume designer who likes Rick and Morty. So quite cool and arty which is promising.

(Faye Clements, Brexit Party - Twitter)

We also have a candidate for the nearby Stockton North constituency called Martin Walker. Again no idea, but that's another fairly safe Labour seat, so it's BP targeting Labour here with these candidates. I don't think they've put forward a candidate for Stockton South yet, which is another seat currently held by Labour, but only marginally so. It was Conservative previously. So perhaps they're leaving that one for the Tories to contest. Likewise they haven't yet put forward a candidate for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (I don't think) which is currently a Conservative hold.

On a separate, but I guess related issue, we also seemed to have a lot of wrangling yesterday over potential plots and alliances to thwart "no deal". I was out most of the day yesterday so struggled to keep up, but I get the impression all sorts of unholy alliances are in the pipeline. Following in a similar manner to the Caroline Lucas cross-party Loose Women style national government plan, and the earlier Rory Stewart Civil War reenactment counter parliament type plan.

It seems the biggest problem the various plotters have is deciding what they hate more - No Deal Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn.

Today we see articles suggesting that Kenneth Clark and Harriet Harman could lead an "emergency" government to stop no deal. It all seems a bit mad.

Personally I'm quite laid back about it all. I know we're going to have two more whole months of this. So it's probably worth stepping back and taking a pause for breath at this point. There's no point wasting too much energy. Better to just survey the situation from a good vantage point.