This weeks election round up

 Three weeks to go so a bit of round up this week after last weeks break from the election but was it?

Well D-Day became an issue even if the event should never be party politicized because the Day had began so well, attending events, meeting veterans, other invitees such as towns people where the liberation happened and obviously other international politicians such as Prime ministers and Presidents.

Then extraordinary having done all of that to the book, even helping to push veterans in their wheelchairs he shoots back to England in the late afternoon to a prebooked interview with ITV just as other events that involved those senior politicians were to take place leaving the Foreign Secretary to fill in.

This day was a fixed event before he called the election, often having attended remembrance events personally can run later and often have get together just happening that you seriously can't plan on shoe horning anything else in.

Given he alone made that decision to call the election when he did, he needed to reschedule the interview as this thing was and is far more important.

He says it was a mistake - well, yes it was, a major one that give the impression an interview was more important than this extremely important event - and one that angered people even in the upper levels of his party.

He needed to be there for US, the British people as Prime Minister.

Major self inflicted wound.

Then Labour are still struggling with both how to increase spending on areas that are NOT protected when it comes to government spending while ruling out tax raises like dealing with immigration issues when that department may well be facing funding cuts.

Nobody would say things are not difficult - that's painfully apparent - but given a chunk of your appeal is about reversing 14+ years of austerity like how?

Calculating what you may claw through tax loopholes is an inexact science and often the very well monied know how to move it around out of your path.

Don't start me on the morality of making Private Education taxable when everything else in education is not just cos you want the money.

That comes over as just class based warfare even if it's more likely to hit aspirational working people or those with a  child with disability who need the extra support and low pupil teacher rations (never more than 14 children to one class) which few secondary schools and a fair number of Junior schools in state sector just don't provide and are often failing.

Then his explanations on Wednesdays for why he enthusiastically backed Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 in a Sky News  public discussion just aren't so convincing and there are still issues with activists over Gaza, Just Stop Oil and co.

The mood music may well be "something better change" but the question remains by what?