Diane Abbott has come bottom of the Maths class. Again. BBC headmistress Jo Coburn is furious.

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I have been saying for years that the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott...</div>
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...is undoubtedly the most stupid woman in Britain. I rest my case.<br />
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Just when I thought today couldn't get any better, I happened upon this unrelated tweet:</div>
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Remember - it's our duty to keep laughing at these people.&nbsp;</div>

Jeremy Corbyn - finally, a politician able to abolish class distinctions in Britain...

...by making his party equally unpopular amongst all classes!

This YouGov graphic is one of the most heartening...

A turkey hears that Christmas has been rescheduled...

Considering that the Tories have so far deliberately...

I mentioned an excellent New Statesman article about Jeremy Corbyn and the nirvana fallacy last October - 'The nirvana fallacy, Denis Healey, and "Toy Town Trot" Jeremy Corbyn'. It's been impossible to avoid the old twit on television in recent days, what with the party conference officially marking the end of Labour as an electable force in British politics, and - presumably because he's really dim and mentally rigid -  it seems he has learned absolutely nothing. To recap, the nirvana fallacy is the belief that we always have a binary choice in politics between messy, imperfect reality and the perfect world which exists only in our imagination: once you have rejected the imperfect world and shared your vision of a perfect world, your work is done. Here's how Ian Leslie put it in his  excellent New Statesman article:

Lots of talk today about cutting the number of peers as well as MPs: I know - what about the "last in, first out" principle!

Because, let's face it...

And there I was, thinking that former BBC producer Owen Smith was just another clueless leftard - shows how right one can be!

Labour's (pre-failed) leadership contender Owen Smith today published a list of twenty pledges to assure hard-left party members (i.e. the vast majority of them) that he's perfectly capable of coming up with a list of policies just as cretinously ruinous, unworkable, unpopular and unaffordable as those advanced by his main rival, Jeremy Corbyn. Well, Smith has succeeded splendidly. There isn't a single measure that isn't guaranteed to destroy business, boost public sector wages, send public spending rocketing through the roof, and send companies and wealth-creators stampeding for the nearest exit. The list starts as it means to go on...

And that was after...

Every political journalist, right now...

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Meanwhile an intellectually distinguished Conservative Brexiteer spends nine minutes trying to speak truth to a spectacularly stupid, ill-mannered and ill-informed left-wing female CNN "journalist" - or, more accurately, to a biased, bigoted political activist masquerading as a television news journalist who has already decided that all Leave voters are (wait for it)... WAYCISTS!!!!!!!!:

Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson in happier times...

(h/t: David Jones)

"No more hate!", "Fuck you, Boris!" Well, which is it? Make up your mind, kiddies! Every young Remainer, right now...

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They came bearing messages of love, tolerance, inclusiveness and mutual respect - ah, the idealism of youth...

Sky's Sophie Ridge and Faisal Islam are smashing BBC's political coverage out of the park - but only Ms Ridge can do this...

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Well, she did start her career as a <i>News of the World</i> trainee, covering showbiz stories. Now, this Italian economics journalistic isn't quite as fanciable (women might feel differently), but he doesn't half talk a lot of sense on Brexit:<br />
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Who knew the word "Braaayyyyykkkkzzzzeeet" could sound so dramatic?<br />
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Speaking of sounding dramatic, I've been enjoying the stream of shadow cabinet resignation letters which have been released at regular intervals over the past two days. Of the lot, I thought this one from Chris Evans (<i>who he? ed - </i>no idea, but presumably not the soon-to-be-sacked <i>Top Gear</i> presenter), was the most amusing:<br />
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The last paragraph at the bottom of the first page - describing Corbyn heading straight from a PLP meeting to address a rally of shrieking Momentum morons - echoes a satirical piece by the <i>Telegraph</i>'s Michael Deacon written shortly after Corby's election as leader. In it, Deacon pictured Corbyn, newly-elected as Prime Minister, standing at the window of 10 Downing Street, gazing at a gaggle of hard left anti-government demonstrators chanting for him to resign. After a while, Corbyn slips out the back and joins them, enthusiastically calling for his own dismissal.<br />
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What a relief not to have an anti-Corbyn Labourite use the inevitable "d" word - decent - to describe their "leader". Mrs. Thatcher resigned after <i>winning</i>&nbsp;the first round of a leadership election. 81% of Steptoe's MPs have just informed him that he no longer commands their confidence - but he's evidently not going to budge until his party is an unrestorable smoking ruin. Similarly, I'm thoroughly sick of being assured that this ghastly old terrorist-lovin' anti-democrat "doesn't have a racist bone in his body." In that case, maybe he shouldn't routinely ally himself with screaming anti-Semites and actually bring himself to utter the word "Israel". Man's an absolute shower.<br />
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Finally, a tweet about the far left "journalist" Paul Mason:<br />
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This was retweeted by the author, Robert Harris, with the comment: "One of the great holy fools of the age". I'm not sure what the word <i>holy</i>&nbsp;is doing in there. What I can't get over is the fact that this monumental idiot (Mason - not Harris) was once <i>Newsnight</i>'s business editor - meaning that some bright spark at the BBC once believed that the best person to interpret this country's business affairs was a former member of the Trotskyist Workers' Power group (?), who more recently described his political beliefs in these words: "I am a radical social democrat who favours the creation of a peer-to-peer sector (co-ops, open source etc) alongside the market and the state, as part of a long transition to a post-capitalist economy." A truly scandalous appointment, and an insult to license-payers.</div>

Brexit and Labour Party Armageddon - because you haven't heard enough about either subject today

Only a political party run by the hard left could manage it. This morning's (evidently pre-Hilary Benn sacking) <i>Telegraph</i> headline screamed "TORIES AT WAR". A gift, you'd think, for the main opposition party. Only it hasn't quite turned out that way? Let's face it, only a politician as goofy and inept (and left-wing) as Jeremy Corbyn could have reduced Her Majesty's Opposition to such an abject shambles at the very moment it should have been powering ahead in the polls (not, of course, that we need ever pay any attention to them ever again). I am heartbroken that... no, I can't manage it: it's just all so deliciously <i>funny</i>. Not that many of my friends are exactly laughing their heads off..<br />
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I say friends, but I suppose I mean "friends", really. I've been on Facebook for years but, because it's an unsuitable platform for airing one's political views (I usually "unfriend" anyone who does so), I never bother posting anything on it. I quite enjoy catching up on what old work colleagues and relatives are getting up to (lots of my Norwegian cousins share their doings on it, which is nice). I only check my timeline (or whatever it's called) every to weeks or so - and then only after receiving an email nudge from Facebook. Yesterday, I took a gander, only to encounter a tsunami of hatred, grief, angst and depression. One friend was telling everyone that Leave won because of&nbsp;"ignorant Sun readers and ageing parochials". <i>Gee, thanks!</i> Several assured me that Out voters had destroyed their children's future. Others were absolutely positive that a way would be found to overturn the result (I suppose if you approve of your laws being devised by unelected bureaucrats, you're not really a fan of democracy in any case). Others urged me to sign a petition to overturn the result (a petition whose signatories include 33,000 residents of Vatican City, where 800 people live, many from North Korea, and quite a few from the Arctic). I'm not sure why signing a petition that says "I didn't like the result" might result in the will of over 17,000,000 British (and, for some reason, Irish) voters being thwarted, but if it makes Remainers feel better, well, okay, I suppose.<br />
I find the point about young people's future being destroyed by ignorant, selfish, old bastards particularly perplexing. Here are some statistics to ponder:<br />
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Turnout by age group: 18-24: 36% 25-34: 58% 35-44: 72% 45-54: 75% 55-64: 81% 65+: 83%<br />
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Presumably, if the 64% of young folk who couldn't be arsed to vote had actually done so, the result would have been different, and their future in the dynamic, prosperous, popular, outward-looking, freedom-loving EU would have been assured.<br />
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Yes, but... they'd been lied to by the Leave campaign! Yes, indeed. They'd also been lied to - far more brazenly - by the Remain camp.<br />
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But the Leavers didn't have a proper plan! No, they didn't. But as they weren't running for office, they didn't need to. Similarly, it was the government's job to come up with a plan for what to do if the country voted to leave the EU: the fact that it evidently hasn't is bizarre.<br />
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The fact that a larger portion of older people voted to leave couldn't be more irrelevant. Post-referendum polls (them again) suggest that the main concern of the majority of Out voters