Dead and Buried

I have to laugh, and to take a slight intake of breath.

People are criticising Pat Glass for not having turned up to the vote on the welfare cap.

But she was at the funeral of Stan Pearce. The number one man in the Militant Tendency within the Durham Miners' Association during the Strike.

Yes, the MP for North West Durham.

She tweeted a tribute to him, and everything.

Truly, this is no longer the Armstrongs' seat.

Putative heirs and heiresses to all that, your moment, if you ever had one, has passed.