Weeknote, Sunday 4th October

It’s been a while..and it might be a while again…but it feels right to get back into weeknotes. I’ve had a week away from work although I suffered from a nasty wee cold/covid bug all week which went from tickly throat to full on “taps to the max” cold. I’m on day 10 and still a bit sniffly. Annoying. Andy Burnham’s conference speech this week felt important. Instead of pushing topics on to the back burner, or spending much of the time talking about how bad things are and how bad a hand he’s been dealt, Burnham spoke with passion and listed off the area’s that he would change for the better and took some brave steps. Not sure I buy into the hope tag fully, but I can now get behind Starmer being hopeless. Caught in a trap that he couldn’t politic out of. It was a refreshing change. Key will now be on delivery and paying for it but he’s certainly off to a good start. Even following up a day later on rejoining Europe, which until last week had been unmentionable for Labour, was another…