The joke’s on Thornberry
EMILY THORNBERRY, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary and Islington neighbour of Comrade Corbyn, is earning a reputation as a risque cabaret act, according to the New Statesman. ‘Her bawdy jokes about foot fetishes and naked men on doorsteps earn racy reviews,’ it reports. ‘So tickled was Emily by her own jokes she could barely finish them at a TUC dinner.’ Ambitious Thornberry is embarking on a nationwide During an anti-semitism rally in Manchester last week, moderate Labour MP Lucy Powell was greeted with a barrage of ‘Corbyn out’ chants. She responded: ‘You don’t need to heckle me. i’m on your side 100 per cent.’ The Corbynista thought police will have something to say about that. IS ALISTAIR CARMICHAEL, the Lib Dem’s only surviving MP in Scotland, a dark horse as candidate for the party leadership? The former Scottish Secretary, who is the party’s chief whip, was spotted at their conference last week sporting a new haircut and having shed several stone. Would the 1,400-mile roundtrip to Westminster from his Orkney and Shetland constituency be a deterrent? Probably not — Jo Grimond, the party’s former leader, represented the same seat. Comrade Corbyn usually enjoys strong backing from the Communist-supporting morning Star newspaper, which employs him as a columnist. But it will take a dim view of his talk yesterday of a second eU referendum, judging by an editorial yesterday. ‘domestic demands for a second chance, couched in the insulting term “people’s vote”, as though the 17.4 million voters who backed leaving the eU don’t qualify as people, exude an undemocratic attitude,’ it declared. ‘Unless democracy is to become a meaningless word, the decision to leave the eU — in substance and not in name only — must be honoured.’