As party leaders publish their New Year messages, it's safe to assume that the old has-been Tony Blair will soon be back on his favourite hobby horse: a second EU referendum.
But he has also issued a rallying cry to his supporters who face deselection by Comrade Corbyn's thought police in Momentum.
Blair was the star turn at the end-of-year fund-raiser for centrist think-tank Progress, where a copy of the 1998 Good Friday agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland, signed by Blair and former U.S. President Bill Clinton, went for £3,500.
But it was Blair's words that caused the stir. Urging his followers to fight Momentum, he attacked the 'finger-jabbing, shouting' party members trying to unseat Corbyn's critics.
Tony Blair has also issued a rallying cry to his supporters who face deselection by Comrade Corbyn's thought police in Momentum
'I remember the same faces from photos from the Eighties,' he added. Without naming Corbyn, he went on: 'These guys on the far Left are offering false hope.
'They're trying to present people with easy solutions rooted in the past, as if some resolution passed at party conference is the same as governing sensibly.
'I know your backs are against the wall, but if Labour is to have any future and to win again, it will be because the politics, philosophy and values of Progress ultimately succeed.'
Blair was cheered to the rafters — an indication that while the Tories are divided on Brexit, Labour's splits are much deeper.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the high priest of Euroscepticism, takes time off from Brexit to deliver a devastating observation on Labour.
He tweets: ‘Things that have bothered the Left over Xmas: Pianos. Knighthoods. Railways.
'Things that haven’t bothered the Left over Xmas: Wealthy MPs taking social housing. Wealthy MPs guilty of perjury. Corbyn lying.’
Juncker gets Drunker award
Mrs Thatcher's ex press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham has drawn up his own list of Terrible Awards for 2018
Not quite the New Year's Honours, but Mrs Thatcher's ex press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham has drawn up his own list of Terrible Awards for 2018.
The Ego, Sacker, Tweeter and Unguided Missile of the Year inevitably goes to President Trump, 'who also qualifies for the Hair of the Year award now that Boris Johnson is sadly shorn'.
Stoic of the Year is Theresa May and Brexit takes Bore of the Year.
Ingham, writing in the Yorkshire Post, adds: 'Some may wonder whether I have forgotten Jean-Claude Juncker (President of the EU Commission). Certainly not. He's the Blotto of the Year.
Missing Paddy's Personality
Former leader of the Liberal Democrats Paddy Ashdown died at the age of 77
The tributes keep coming in for Paddy Ashdown after his untimely death from cancer last week aged 77.
Baroness Grender, his head of communications in the Nineties, says: 'He inherited a political party on the verge of bankruptcy — financial and political — and by dint of personality built it back up again.'
With Ashdown gone, the Lib Dems are a personality-free zone. No wonder the Liberal Democrat Voice website is running a competition under the heading: 'Why be a Liberal Democrat?'
One of Comrade Corbyn's key allies, Jon Lansman, the founder of hard-Left Momentum, has lifted the lid on the scale of the party's problems over anti-Semitism.
'Prior to three years ago [before Corbyn] we were having to deal with a few dozen cases a year,' the Jewish Chronicle reports him as saying.
'There are now hundreds to deal with. I sat on a disciplinary review panel of 100 cases this summer and 80 per cent were anti-Semitism related.'
Matthew Postgate, the BBC's £310,000-a-year Chief Technology and Product Officer, charged licence-fee payers £6,880 for a return flight to Miami, his latest expenses show. What was he flying in? A private jet?
Vote Leave mastermind Dominic Cummings should be flattered by Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of him in Channel 4's new drama, Brexit: The Uncivil War.
Talking of his hairdo, Cumberbatch said: 'I had a 'no-hawk'. Completely bald on top and with my normal hair at the side . . . with wisps of hair going over.
He was very brown and handsome and with a shaved head when I met him.'
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Main photo article As party leaders publish their New Year messages, it’s safe to assume that the old has-been Tony Blair will soon be back on his favourite hobby horse: a second EU referendum.
But he has also issued a rallying cry to his supporters who face deselection by Comrade Corbyn’s thought...
It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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