Summer’s here. Well, its sunny this morning, that’ll have to do. All the sport’s finished now. Ok, we have the Olympics coming soon, to a Zika virus near you, (can it be transmitted through the tv??) but they’ve basically removed all sport and replaced it with golf. Great.

Usually politics winds down too at this time as Parliament goes into summer recess.

But not this year. This year its all happening.

We have a new Prime Minister and he is a she. Who has now started appointing her inner circle with some rather interesting surprises. George Osborne, dull-as-dishwater Chancellor for as long as anyone can remember is out. Replaced by the only man in the history of politics to be even duller; Philip Hammond. There again, as Osborne proved, you don’t have to be interesting to do a pretty decent job on the economy. Amber Rudd is Home Secretary, Liam Fox is Trade and Industry and Boris is the new Foreign Secretary. His ‘time in the political wilderness’ following his sudden departure from glory and the leadership campaign, lasted about 4 days. Such is life ‘a la Johnson’. Boris once again proves that 24 hours is indeed a long time in politics. And much as I have many issues with the tragically self-serving blond buffoon, I think this is a good fit. The Americans love Boris, the Europeans hate him. He’s a good ambassador. I hope.

Yet over in Camp Labour all is not so sunny. Its still winter. Siberian winter really as our self-destructive opposition party declares war on itself. But not, one feels, in the usual, metaphorical sense. This is war. Angela Eagle challenges Corbyn, someone puts a brick through the window of her constituency office. All those MPs who withdrew their support from their esteemed Chairman Leader are now receiving threats of a very nasty nature. Particularly the women among them. Because what Corbyn has stood for his entire political career is an anti-establishment paradigm. He’s a ‘protester’. Against everyone. Used to belong to ‘Militant Tendency’, who have kind of re-risen under the guise of ‘Momentum’ and are a nasty bunch of anarchists. Thus leading Jeremy and co. (errrrr, that’ll be McDonell then, its about all the ‘co.’ he has now) to take their party ever-Leftwards, away from socialism towards pretty much fear-induced Stalinism.

You have to think that if Corbyn wins the leadership battle, the rest of Labour will separate and re-form as something more electable. And if he loses, then the hard left will probably detach itself from the mainstream party and become the lunatic left fringe to which they really aspire.

All happenin’

Happy Thursday

A xxxx