Power is Their Only Principle.

Sir Keir Starmer went on national TV yesterday to launch a savage attack on Boris Johnson over his attempts to save sleazy Owen Paterson's Parliamentary skin by watering down the rules on standards. Starmer's headline-grabbing party piece was to demand our Acme-Joke Prime Minister apologise publicly to the nation over the affair.

Well, bravo! Here-here! I and I'm sure the majority of the country agree with Starmer on that but there is one tiny anti-flatulence tablet to take the wind out of his sails................IT'S TAKEN HIM FUCKING LONG ENOUGH!

The Committee on Standards' damning report on Paterson's sleazy activities was published almost two weeks ago! Where was the Opposition's knight in not-so-shining armour then? All over the box lambasting the Tories' continuing cash-for-questions shenanigans? Not on your codpiece!

Then, five days ago, Johnson orders his Tory troops to vote for an overhaul of the whole standards system with a view to getting Paterson off the naughty step and back into the fold. Did Starmer hit tilt then and demand pitchfork-brandishing hordes descend on Parliament to string up corrupt politicians? Our survey said....ah-arrrrrgh! 

No, what happens over the last fortnight is the poor schmucks who pay for all of them (that's "us". Ed) start screaming "enough is e-fucking-nough!" and only then does Starmer decide "Ah! There's votes in them thar ills".

All of a sudden he switches on the "outraged" button and wants us all to know this affair is disgusting and heads should roll.

You just know his army of spin doctors and strategic planners had, until then, been busy pouring over graphs, piecharts and Venn diagrams of marginal constituences until some Justin-type minced in with copies of the daily papers! "Seen this your sirship? I've had an idea."

Starmer's belated, insincere rage, coming as late as it did, not only reeks of pragmatism and not principle but also clearly illustrates why Johnson and his cohorts of incompetent, self-serving, greedy, insensitive, totally disconnected colleagues are still in power...............BECAUSE THERE IS NO FUCKING EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION!!!!!

This is partly why the bitch Thatcher sat on the throne for so long! Labour then had Kinnock, a complete waste of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms if ever there was one!

Then Labour was all set to take charge under the stewardship of the great John Smith but he was tragically (in so many more ways than one) taken from us all and so which opportunistic, insincere, power-hungry shit stepped in? Yup, Tory Blair.

He got Labour elected by adopting the clever strategy of having Conservative ideals and policies. We got Labour spelled T.O.R.Y.

We haven't had an effective opposition to the right wing agenda for 40 years now! - and don't it show!

We're in a total mess but I can only say to the electorate "You get what you vote for".