Jeremy Corbyn's time is up
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I only said it for the caustic outraged replies I knew I would get.
YouSir
Retired from Urban
the full text exchange - the bellend was texting the wrong person.
An alternative person, no doubt.
Peston has some more background.
I have spoken to David Hodge, the leader of Surrey Council, whose texts were read out at Prime Minister's Questions by Jeremy Corbyn as evidence of a possible sweetheart funding deal between the government and Surrey Council.
Hodge said he "swears on the bible there was no sweetheart deal".
But he concedes the texts he sent were supposed to go to Nick King, the special adviser to Sajid Javid.
Instead they went - by mistake - to a Labour councillor, Hodge told me. He is furious because he feels that the honour code of members of the Local Government Association, that they don't leak against each other, has been breached by the leaker.
Certainly the leaks make it look as though there was some kind of deal - because they contain the phrase "the numbers you indicated are the numbers that I understand are acceptable for me to accept and call off the R....."
Now the "R" in question is the controversial referendum that Surrey Council was proposing to hold, to authorise a stonking 15% increase in council tax.
This referendum was called off yesterday - which was taken by Corbyn as circumstantial evidence that Surrey had been bought off by Javid and the Department of Communities and Local Government.
This referendum and council-tax rise were hugely embarrassing to the government, because Hodge had made it clear Surrey needed the extra money to fill a black hole in social care.
Having dropped the referendum, Surrey is now imposing a smaller 4.99% rise in council tax.
Hodge told me he remains deeply concerned by what he described as the "crisis in social care" - which he says is a huge contributor to the shortage of beds in hospitals, with old people unable to leave hospitals because the money isn't available to care for them outside.
He says that the reason he called off the referendum is that he is persuaded the government is working on proposals that may put social care on a more sustainable footing.
If he was given an inside track on the government's outline ideas to restore funding for social care, that too would be embarrassing to the prime minister.
When attacked on the alleged leaks by Jeremy Corbyn today, Theresa May looked rattled.
I have spoken to David Hodge, the leader of Surrey Council, whose texts were read out at Prime Minister's Questions by Jeremy Corbyn as evidence of a possible sweetheart funding deal between the government and Surrey Council.
Hodge said he "swears on the bible there was no sweetheart deal".
But he concedes the texts he sent were supposed to go to Nick King, the special adviser to Sajid Javid.
Instead they went - by mistake - to a Labour councillor, Hodge told me. He is furious because he feels that the honour code of members of the Local Government Association, that they don't leak against each other, has been breached by the leaker.
Certainly the leaks make it look as though there was some kind of deal - because they contain the phrase "the numbers you indicated are the numbers that I understand are acceptable for me to accept and call off the R....."
Now the "R" in question is the controversial referendum that Surrey Council was proposing to hold, to authorise a stonking 15% increase in council tax.
This referendum was called off yesterday - which was taken by Corbyn as circumstantial evidence that Surrey had been bought off by Javid and the Department of Communities and Local Government.
This referendum and council-tax rise were hugely embarrassing to the government, because Hodge had made it clear Surrey needed the extra money to fill a black hole in social care.
Having dropped the referendum, Surrey is now imposing a smaller 4.99% rise in council tax.
Hodge told me he remains deeply concerned by what he described as the "crisis in social care" - which he says is a huge contributor to the shortage of beds in hospitals, with old people unable to leave hospitals because the money isn't available to care for them outside.
He says that the reason he called off the referendum is that he is persuaded the government is working on proposals that may put social care on a more sustainable footing.
If he was given an inside track on the government's outline ideas to restore funding for social care, that too would be embarrassing to the prime minister.
When attacked on the alleged leaks by Jeremy Corbyn today, Theresa May looked rattled.
andysays
Love and solidarity
mauvais
on reddit or something
As described in Nitobe Inazō's 1899 book, 'Bushido: The Soul of The Updated Residents' Parking Permit Scheme'.
See also: 'Accidental Partridge'
YouSir
Retired from Urban
They're going to chop off Corbyn's pinkie finger in the HoC bar.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Quite frankly if you need an "honour code" to stop revealing dirty deals and back door rubs you should be aware that its not breaching the fucking code thats dodgy as fuck.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Yeah I know I was reading the thread, I just wanted to put the link up 
ruffneck23
front left
That was debunked later this morning apparently
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
I remained a "true believer" all through those 2 long hours.we did that this morning, it's all Jeremy Corbyn Slaughters May now. A couple of hours is a long time in politics...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
no no, it is honour that has been bismerched here clearly. Simply not cricket. Hang every man jack of them.
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
He's had his front garden pruned.
Is that a euphemism?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I saw her tweet , she's quite well connected with the Manchester Labour more the Burnham side than the Corbynistas . The person who told me is an ex Trot whose been in Labour for years both London and Manchester but for all I know he might have just repeated her tweet.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Actually being Mayor of Manchester could be very good for his CV in a challenge not this time around but in the future.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Burnhams feem tune:
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
Lots of Wigan is surprisingly green and beautiful. They had to do something with all those hastily closed coal mines.
gosub
~#
No, it's literally true
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
Worked better as a eupemism.
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