Kmflett's Blog

We have several more weeks to go of media reporting on what Andy Burnham did or did not have for breakfast before the Makerfield By-Election in the second half of June. We are unlikely to get such detail on what the current Reform candidate is up to since he appears to be kept under close guard of his Reform minders (as paid for by a Thai billionaire one might assume).

Likewise as even Alastair Campbell has managed to point out, one inexcusable tweet from someone who is now not the Green candidate received considerable media attention. The now deleted social media accounts of the Reform candidate and the fascists he was following on them, have received much less.

What has received even less media attention however is the clear split on the Tory right about whether to campaign at Makerfield or reach some kind of deal with Reform.

Jacob Rees Mogg has called for a Tory-Reform pact (again) raising the question of whether he is really some kind of fifth columnist for Reform. In the Spectator ex-revolutionary communist, and Spiked contributor, now on the far right, Brendan O’Neill has called for a Reform vote. The Spectator is edited by Michael Gove. In the Telegraph another reliably reactionary voice Stephen Pollard has argued that Andy Burnham must be defeated though he doesnt quite get around to saying who by.

Will all this get further media attention? It really depends on what Andy Burnham is eating and what shorts he is wearing.