As far as I can tell he had a VERY brief stint as a local journalist aged 18 before heading to the Caribbean for 2 years at the age of 19, during which time he filled in as a geography teacher at Kingston College for a short spell.

Since returning to the UK aged 21 he's basically been a Trade Union official before becoming a politician. His only attempt at a further education failed when he left Uni after arguing with his tutors.

So no, he's never had a real job in the sense of the average person. He enjoyed a wealthy and entitled upbringing and has been a crusty ever since.

Similar to Johnson then

Journalist and then politician, spouting right wing driver all of his life, just with a little more privilege

But Johnson doesn't spout all the Marxist cobblers that Corbyn does.

That's because he doesn't actually give a damn about anyone apart from, well, Boris.
(I'm assuming that the "Marxist" tag came straight from the Telegraph ?)

Suggest you follow Corbyn on twitter

Looks like Farage may give Labour a boost after all.
It seems like Farage is now trying to pressure on Johnson to go for no deal by threatening to put candidates against the Tories in every seat if Johnson doesn't scrap his deal.

Maybe a lifeline for Jezza ?

I see big positives for the Tories if Boris sticks to his guns - bad news for Labour as he will take votes off them from the leave constituencies especially the Labour ones.

It's in fact the total opposite of what you suggest.
Farage was going to put candidates in all of the Labour held seats but, the offer was there, to not fight for Tory held seats.
With leave voters having a 50/50 choice between Farage & Boris (not a great choice, I admit), the leave vote will be split, severely damaging Boris's chances of an overall majority.
This is a huge headache for Cummings and the Tory strategists, especially when you factor in the ERG's wishes of no deal.
It would appear that, despite the disastrous likely hit to the ecconomy, the Tories may all have to shuffle even further to the right.

Very few leavers want a no deal Brexit - a few hardliners it will push the vote towards the Brexit party. Farage is despised - Boris is very popular for me its a win-win for Boris. There are what 25 in the ERG hardly a dominant force in the Tory party.

Do you have any empirical evidence about the numbers of leave voters who are single subject enough to vote that way but didn't already switch to the Tories in the 2017 election? We saw bumps in the Tory vote in a lot of places last time (less so than Labour but still a lot) so I'm curious to what degree these people actually exist (I'm sure they do, but to what extent?).

The most likely scenario is the Tory vote falls by less than the Labour one, which will give them the advantage in plenty of constituencies; but will it be enough to offset their almost certain losses in the SW, Scotland and London? Even a 10 point Tory lead may see them barely scrape a majority; it all depends on the vote distribution.

Comedy gold right there Sal, absolutely hilarious.
It's the ERG that did for Mrs May and have held their party to ransom.

As for "no deal", I think this is where we are heading if, either Farage wins a number of seats or, looks like threatening a Tory majority.
When you hear people bemoaning the fact that we havent left yet, a fair proportion do seem to want no deal.
Again, they appear to have been taken in by Farage's rhetoric but, I'm sure that they all fully understand exactly what they want



Remember, with a majority in single figures, it really doesn't take much to hold the government to ransom and those driving Brexit from within the Tory Party DO want no deal or, as close as they can get to that position.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

Didn't 200+ Labour MPs vote against May's deal 3 times or did I imagine that?

Farage hasn't been able to win a seat yet - he is no liked or trusted. Brexit might take some seats of Labour which will help but if the polls are correct and stay the way they are then Boris will not need him. Its a bit like remainers - they think the EU will remain exactly as it is now and our relationship with the EU will be exactly as it is - sadly we all know that will not be the case - as you say "wake up and smell the coffee"

How did Johnson vote? Interesting if you view that as disqualifying.

Ridiculously, the political party’s most in favour of staying in the EU (Lib Dem and Green) will probably enable Brexit.

The Brexit vote will be split 2 ways between Conservatives and Brexit Party.

The remain vote will be split 3 ways between Labour, Lib Dem and Green.
In Scotland/Wales the remain vote is split 4 ways.

How can Jo Swinson and Caroline Lucas justify that when their whole campaign is based on staying in the EU.

Surely they should be standing down their candidates where they are a distant 3rd or 4th

If Labour had voted for the deal it would have gone through - even you can't try and deflect that

May's deal had all the protections they wanted and they still voted against it?

Not sure whose narrative you're repeating but the bipartisan deal was never brought to the floor of the house.

May's deal had protection of workers rights and environmental in line with EU standards

It's all going so well for the Tories; highlights this week include Michael Gove using a fake Twitter account to amplify false claims of AS against Momentum: the party machine doctoring a video of Keir Starmer to create fake news: the Tories supressing the publication of a report about Russian interference in the EU referendum; Boris Johnson & Gove being referred to the CPS over the criminality of Vote Leave; and best of all, Jacob Rees-Mogg saying on LBC that the people who died in the Grenfell fire did so because they lacked common sense - made worse by the demonic dwarf Andrew Bridgen doubling down on that, by saying that clever people like Jacob, who definitely wouldn't die in a fire because he'd make his own escape arrangements, are in charge precisely *because* of that death by incineration avoiding brand of cleverness.

Dom must be chuffed to bits.

The scary thing is, he probably is, and so are his disciples. They either spend hours trying to debunk what everyone else has seen and heard with their own eyes and ears, or they use it to say the liberal/leftist media are ganging up on them, and they are in fact the victims in all of this. It's all going to plan.

The Tories are getting all their skeletons out of the cupboard now and hoping to minimise the impact. To me they have hit the ground walking whilst Labour have hit the ground running. Labour have two big issues - financial credibility - whatever you say about austerity one thing you can't say is the Tories have been profligate with the monies and Corbyn.

You are Laura Kuenssberg, and I claim my 5 Euros.

They need to shut the cupboard door.
Although the modern world is, in general, far too intrusive in peoples lives, there isn't too much that can be kept secret these days and the cupboard will be over flowing with Tory scandals and ill timed comments.

Rees Mogg made a blooper and Cleverley actually made things worse when he tried to defend his colleague.
It would be hilarious but for the subject matter. What an absolute waste of political space and he (Rees Mogg) was running for PM just a short while ago

As we've spoken, another one bites the dust; Alun Cairns, a Cabinet member, resigns over allegations that he was complicit in the deliberate sabotage of a rape trial.

The Tories - what a fine and upstanding bunch of basterds.

I agree - Cleverley looks out of depth and under prepared - to be out foxed by Piers Morgan who has pulled more of these stunts than anyone is the height of stupidity.

Labour have already made enough gaffs that the Tories should have had plenty of ammunition - even Morgan said today Labour's Brexit policy lacks any kind of credibility.

Less said about Mogg the better - doubt you will see him again in this campaign.

You've missed Alun Cairns resignation as well !