Tennis is not a violent game. Can be explosive, can even be fast and furious but its not famous for violence. But that’s because I don’t play Aussie Johnno very often. Probably because he’s an Aussie (these days) and lives ‘over there’, even though he was the Bulawayo (white) boys champion tennis player of 1972. Or 3. But he was here and we played and look what happened to my lip. Ok, I managed to smash myself in the face with my own racquet but he was right there; at the opposite side of the net, just 40 yards away, the viscous bastard. And I managed to miss the ball completely. Though anyone slightly less superhuman (or slightly more intelligent) wouldn’t have gone for it in the first place.

And this is interesting. Vince Cable, vile and smarmy leader of the Lib-Dems, and Patrick Collins, ex-speech writer for Tony Blair and currently political writer on the Times, are considering a Lib-Lab pact/new party/alliance/allegiance/something in which the pathetic Liberals, for their 9 seats in parliament, would join forces with the right wing of the Labour party; the sane ones who don’t like Corbyn and his band of extremist, Marxist comrades, and form a kind’a new party. Kind’a.

Yet it makes sense in so many ways. Because anyone vaguely Blairish can only be massively unhappy with the new leadership and its bullying, undemocratic brand of hard-sell socialism. And thus are far closer aligned to the (apparent) centrism of the Liberals. The question really is why a hundred, maybe hundred-and-fifty disgruntled Labourites would have any need for the Liberals paltry contribution in terms of seats, for which they’d have to sit at times in the same room as uber-tosser Vince Cable.

And yet in the Tories too there’s noises of a ‘split’. Probably along brexit/remain lines because they just can’t get past that, over that, around that or beyond that. So you could have Rees-Mogg and the brexiteers in the pompous, almost-BNP camp, with Nigel Farage (who is actually involved in the plans for this along with Steve Bannon??? go work that one out) and the remainder of the remainers in the other.

The good news would be that we’d have a totally new political structure, replacing the almost defunct if barely functioning ‘2-party-system’ with a totally unworkable and quasi-ridiculous 4/5 party system which at least seems to offer a broader span of the political spectrum. We could, ironically, leave Europe at the same time as joining them in the formation of worthless and ineffective coalitions in place of proper governments.

Best of all would be an alliance between Corbyn’s new Anti-Semite-Communist-Workers-Union-Party and Rees-Mogg’s Upper-class-bowler-hat-white-person’s-Party. That’d be interesting.

Happy fat-lip Sunday

A xxxx