Remember to have a Gold Blend for Anthony Head. 😢

First of the month and a good time to take stock of the polling landscape, especially with pollsters asking how people would vote with Andy Burnham as Labour Leader... willjpatterson.mediu...

🧵It feels hollow wishing people a happy Pride month but I hope people still find some joy from it. Would be allies could spend this month particularly focussed on actions to help. Let’s start with sharing and signing petition for enquiry on something petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Happy Pride Month!

And that's the end of another #UEFA men's club football season, in which 50% of all the penalty shootouts in the Champions League were won by Kairat Almaty. Luckily for PSG, they were playing Arsenal instead... It's Co-efficient Corner time. willjpatterson.mediu...

Congratulations to Crystal Palace - with their win, let's check in on the state of play for the #UEFA rankings and Access List... And can PSG stop a Full English on Saturday?

Time for a quick post #UEFA Europa League Co-efficient Corner in the wake of Aston Villa's win, and what needs to happen for England to get six Champions League spots... willjpatterson.mediu...

With a tenure of just four days, Stephen Gethins becomes the shortest serving Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds since 17 December 1985, when the office changed hands eight times! 😂 www.gov.uk/government/n...

The previous Steward and Bailiff, Stephen Gethins, served just four days. Will be vox popping in the Chiltern Hundreds, asking if the high turnover suggests the area has become ungovernable

Equip all zebra crossings with grenade launchers and give pedestrians the legal right to fire at any bastard driver who doesn't stop.

A quick canter through the results from this week's elections: willjpatterson.mediu...

Josh Simons resigned following his antics as Director of Labour Together, a faction indelibly linked with Keir Starmer and his back office. If even he is putting his head above the parapet and calling for Starmer to go, then it's better to get things over with and deliver an exit strategy.

There's a house down the road ad from me that has had two flags hanging out of the window for so long that the white has turned grey, and has a huge pile of rubbish building in the front garden. Of course they have a Reform poster in the window. These are the people getting their way tonight.

Oh, FFS, the creepy little shit who looks like he only ever refers to women as "females" is now one of my councillors.

We interrupt the ongoing Election Night geekery to bring you #UEFA geekery. It's a Co-efficient Corner, as England manage a team in every final, and Spain bag a fifth Champions League spot.

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Catching up with Scottish election final polls, Labour’s lack of a clear list vote strategy may come back to bite

Well, that was one busy Day in Polling as we brace ourselves for tomorrow... willjpatterson.mediu...

Yes, I am single, why do you ask?

Maybe I'll have an Eelwasser instead.

One for the SNL UK fans.

Time for a quick Day in Polling as the big day looms... willjpatterson.mediu...

Another busy Week in Polling - and more to come until we get to The Only Polls That Matter!™️

Twelve teams, six matches, and it's advantage Spain in the race for a European Performance Spot - it's Co-efficient Corner. willjpatterson.mediu...

If memory serves, the last politician Labour was told to "learn to love" was a certain Peter Mandelson.

As we hurtle towards polling day, this was a less apocalyptic post for Labour than I was assuming I'd draft, in the Week in Polling. willjpatterson.mediu...

When Labour inevitably gets humiliated at the local elections they will have nobody to blame but themselves. They have massively alienated a lot of core voters by chasing Reform with ever more hostile policies against migrants and other marginalised groups.

Maybe if he'd actually been doing the job instead of delegating most of it to Morgan McSweeney, this statement wouldn't be quite so absurd.

Attempting one catastrophic political appointment to the diplomatic service looks like misfortune. Two looks like carelessness.

Oh dear. Robbins has mentioned that No 10 asked for a Head of Mission job for Matthew Doyle, and not to tell the Foreign Secretary. Doyle is currently suspended from the Labour Party over his friendship with Sean Morton.

Time for a Week in Polling - based largely on fieldwork carried out before the latest chapter in the Mandelson saga. It wasn't looking that bad for Labour, so this is a good baseline for comparison ahead of the polling to be published in the next few days.

Bonus points for Rachel Maskell for getting the word "forensic" in there.

MPs are furious about this - especially the quotes from Epstein victims.

I'm tuning in for Starmer's statement - I'm not expecting him to say much we haven't already heard, and I'm certain we won't hear any surprises from the Opposition, but I'm curious to see how Labour backbenchers respond.

If anyone within a five-mile radius of Wigan noticed their windows briefly rattling, that was me slamming my door in the face of a little scrote from Reform. The phrase "I'd rather shit in my hands and clap" may have preceded said slamming.

15 matches left, 12 teams still in #UEFA men's club competitions after the quarter finals wrap up... It's a Co-efficient Corner. willjpatterson.mediu...

Well played, Latics admin, well played. #wafc

Why change a winning team? #wafc

It's Monday, it's less than a month until Polling Day, it's a Week in Polling.

For the record, when I updated my spreadsheet to take Your Party into account, I didn't bother to include them in my figures for Scotland. As their entire Scottish Executive Committee has quit the party, and their interim replacements will be drawn out of a hat, I think I made the right call.

Looking forward to Matt Goodwin blaming Orban's defeat on family voting. Also looking forward to Matt Goodwin having to sign on.

Unchanged starting XI for the Tics... Caldwell risking going without a substitute keeper again! #wafc

With another week of #UEFA men's club football wrapped up, let's see who's up and who's down... it's Co-efficient Corner.

Fancy some Bank Holiday reading on the state of the opinion polls, and likely winners and losers in the Scottish Parliament election next month? Sure you do! It's a Week in Polling.

Happy First Contact Day to all those who celebrate! 🖖

With five and a half weeks until polling day in Scotland, Wales and large parts of England, let's take a look at the opinion pollsters' scores on the doors...