We have a vast political landscape in this fine, democratic nation. And its blue. There’s hundreds of other colours in the palette, but they don’t count. Don’t contribute. Don’t reckon into the equation. Which currently reads: Boris 1, everyone else didn’t.

It is remarkable that they’re now talking about a Conservative government with greater longevity than Maggie Thatcher’s 11 years. Possibly. And all they really need is a pandemic every year to ensure it. Ok, maybe unfair, they need a pandemic AND they need a hapless, meaningless, message-less Labour Party to contribute to their wellbeing. Which, under the stern-appearing, solid-sounding but with a very very soft underbelly leadership of Kier Starmer, they seem to have.

I’m undecided about Kier. Never liked the look of him, I find him quite repulsive, but ‘this is not the cult of personality or beauty’… yet it always is. And when Kier came in, suspended Corbyn on about day3 and spoke harshly about his predecessor’s evil ways, my first thought was ‘well said, Kier-baby’ and my second thought was ‘where the fuck have you been for the last 3 years other than standing right next to Corbyn nodding your fucking head? Supporting these ‘evil ways’, even if that ‘support’ was just doing and saying nothing. When he became leader he ‘suddenly realised’ that his wife was Jewish and rose to defend her race and her people. Hmmm…

Is it still about Brexit? I really don’t know. Why would the good people of Hartlepool (I’m sure there must be a few, aren’t there?) just abandon their voting patterns of the last 60 years because they ‘believe in’ the Conservative way. It’s actually unthinkable. And if they were Corbynites protesting, the last person in the world they’d vote for would be a Tory. So it can only be a dislike of Starmer or they’re hanging on so tightly to their Brexit ways that only Boris could possibly represent them. As if anyone else might take us ‘back in’. Whereas only Nicola Sturgeon has the power to do that. According to Nicola Sturgeon. And Hadrian’s Wall is like green kryptonite to her anyway so her powers don’t work down here.

I’m not sure about the argument that ‘Starmer is just another posh, southern softy, London lawyer’ and thus can’t understand the lives of a northern working class rabble, when Boris is just the same, without the lawyer bit.

All I know is that without some kind of viable and united opposition party, government doesn’t work properly. And the opposition party currently have no message, no visible path to success, no viable nuffink. Sir Kier needs to get his shit together and have a, kind’a, ‘plan’. And quick. Because Boris is not the God that he is actually beginning to think he is.

Happy wet Saturday. Real men play tennis in the rain. Especially silly ones who know no better.

A xxxx