Brown forced to eat Crewe and Nantwich

Well said, that man:

Justin McKeating: Any Tory who thinks they are winning rather than Labour losing needs to stop jumping around and take a bit of breather.

Even Iain Dale and Paul Staines appear to agree; it wasn’t the Tories or Timpson that won, but toff-talk that lost. (Though, in fairness, it may be a case of Dale and Staines simply wanting to put the boot into Maguire in exactly the same way that they didn’t when Nadine Dorries stuffed it for their side recently.)

Amusingly, the famously thirsty Staines described the result in Crewe and Nantwich as “a tipping pint” before admitting that he typed one thing, but meant quite a mother.