Suprise suprise, Andy Burham has been nominated to contest the Makerfield seat for Labour.
The Reform candidate will be Robert Kenyon, a pipesman, an army reservist, who has previously worked for the NHS in the area as a specialist technician.
Burnham is now going back 36 years and blaming Thatcher for all the country's woes of today. It is a bit of a stretch, not sure why he is not blaming Winston Churchill. What he is forgetting that within those 36 years he was a cabinet minister in the Blair/Brown government for 13 years. To coin a phrase, it beggars belief what he is coming out with.
If he is going back 36 years he had better explain himself, his theorising and his views on the intervening years, where he had a finger in the pie. Keep on talking Burnham, you may shoot yourself in the foot.