Hammy the Hamster's blog

So Liverpool has a new Lord Mayor, many congratulations to Frank Prendergast, and good luck for his year as Liverpool's first citizen.
After his instillation on Tuesday, I was invited to nibble some cheese with a few mates living behind the skirting board in the Town Hall ballroom....

Labour's Mr Ed has been taking advice from Luciana on how best to endear himself to the people of Liverpool.
Anyone from the Lib Dem campaign team is reading this? You might want to stick this picture on a leaflet guys.

One story you may have missed during the AV referendum was an interesting quiz on how Merseyside MPs would vote.
Most presented rational reasons for and against, apart from two Labour MPs.
Rosie Cooper refused to answer! Well it is a secret ballot after all, so you can't expect to be able to find out what your MP thinks on an important matter of state!...

... To their natural home in Labour, obviously.
Joe Anderson continues to swell his ranks with Tories, after welcoming arch Thatcherite Steve Fitzsimmons to his increasingly discontented band.
The ink had hardly dried on Steve's membership form when £1000-a-week Joe announced that the former Tory Leader and parliamentary candidate would be standing for Labour next May....