If the Blob isn't keen on Keir

Merely a guess this, but Keir Starmer's regime has made such a rocky start to government that a chap is bound to wonder if the Blob thinks his Parliamentary majority is far too large. Maybe the Blob thought Starmer, the Labour Cabinet and that huge majority should be treated with a hefty dose of political damage from the outset.

It's something I posted about nearly two months ago in connection with the Winter Fuel Payment debacle, the rumblings from which are still with us -

 

Not that the bean-counting smallness isn't there, but this debacle looks far more like a deliberate reminder of who manages these things, a reminder that it isn't Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer.

It's easier and possibly more plausible to put the poor start down to incompetence and much of it clearly is incompetence. However, a number of flies on a number of walls could have heard something else too.

What would an alert, senior Blob fixer do about Labour's huge majority? Undermine it from the start? Seems plausible enough, especially when we factor in the inadequate pool of talent among Labour MPs, including the leader. Discreet undermining was likely to look like incompetence anyway.