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EDM Watch: Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell love The Hoff

With a grand total of more than 1,900 between them, do Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell put their names to every EDM going? Here is the latest batch of “parliamentary graffiti” to bear their signatures:

DAVID HASSELHOFF AND MORECAMBE WINTER GARDENS

That this House notes that David Hasselhoff visited the precincts of the House on 8 February 2011; further notes that he pledged his support for the reopening of Morecambe Winter Gardens; believes that this demonstrates the international significance of the Winter Gardens; further believes that reopening them would reinstate an important part of the UK’s heritage and bring vital regeneration to the town of Morecambe; and wishes Mr Hasselhoff good luck in his participation in Britain’s Got Talent and in his other projects in the UK.

Or perhaps they’re closet Baywatch fans?

David Miliband to launch new leadership website this afternoon

David Miliband has pulled his temporary campaign site (image) in preparation for the official unveiling of davidmiliband.net this afternoon. Labour blogger Tom Harris will chair the launch with the older Milibrother giving a short speech and Q&A (cue briefings to PR Week that this will be the ellusive “internet election”).

As for the site design, perhaps he will follow the lead of Andy Burnham, winning over the ladies of the Labour movement with an 80s-crooner/teen idol cheesy grin?

Or maybe he will resurect the spirit of Labour’s mid-90s iconoclasm with a website that, erm, looks like it’s from 1994? Over to John McDonnell, whose john4leader.org.uk website was last updated 12 weeks ago when Gordon Brown was still Prime Minister:

We’ll have to wait and see.

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