To err is human, to forgive, divine. Allegedly. But its contextual. One ‘error’ is forgivable. Two or more speaks of incompetence or conspiracy. Especially, when its the government making all the mistakes.

First we had ‘suit-and-specs-gate’ when the Prime Minister suddenly went from looking like a low-rent, part-time bookkeeper with a gambling habit to like he’d suddenly become sponsored by Primark and Specsavers. Not a great look, but a bit better. Because he had in fact been sponsored, but by Lord Ali, to the tune of about 16 grand. Which he ‘mistakenly’ forgot to declare. Well its ‘only 16k, innit?’

Angela Rayner had to resign from her deputy-PM position (thank the Lord) because of a ‘mistake’ which had her paying too little stamp duty on the sale of a house. Her 19th such ‘mistake’ to do with houses since becoming the crown-princess of the Left.

Then Rachel Reeves ‘forgot’ to get a license to rent a house out. Oh, sorry, no, she never knew she needed it. Even though not one but TWO agents had advised her to do so.

And now its Lisa Nandy’s turn. She made a ‘mistake’ this week. As Minister for Culture and Sport, she appointed David Kogan as football’s main overseer. There were three main candidates for the head of football’s ‘watchdog’. Kogan wasn’t one of them. But Lisa Nandy chose him as ‘the anointed one’. The best candidate by a long way. She said. What she didn’t say was that Kogan was a donor both to the Labour Party AND to Nandy herself when she stood for party leader. And, as a minister, you’re not, kind’a, allowed to reward donations with prime jobs. That’s, kind’a ‘corruption’. And no-one wants that.

If you add on a few instances of ‘oops, I seem to have set free from prison a few illegal immigrant, criminal sex-offenders. Sorry; honest mistake’, then we are fast reaching ‘the Mistaken Government’.

Though the biggest mistake was electing them in the first place. The rest was almost inevitable.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx