Janet Daley, as usual, says it for me - and infinitely more intelligently

Sorry again for my 'hissy-fit' but don't these computer-thingies drive you mad when they go wrong?  It's alright for those 'whizzy-do' experts, like 'SoD', who actually understand how they work but for 80-year old grumps like me they remain the usual mix of riddle, mystery and enigma.  Anyway, I have watched an episode of "Morse" and have now calmed down.

On return, I read today's column by Janet Daley in The Telegraph which is laser-like in its accuracy.  

"It is generally the case that when the state of the country demands a general election it is because we need a new government. This time it is because we need a new opposition."

Absolutely spot on although I would strongly suggest that in addition the Government ranks could do with a clean out.  What a squalid bunch of treacherous double-dealers many of them are!  As for Her Majesty's (dis)Loyal Opposition, I don't think I have ever seen such a hopeless, hapless collection of utter deadbeats!

How can it be that while all the opposition parties excoriate the sitting prime minister (even after he has succeeded in the most monumental and supposedly impossible task set before him, the result of which they have approved) they are unanimously opposed to permitting him to be removed from office, at least without impossible conditions? Or, to put it more simply, they are united in their refusal to give the electorate any role in their private game.

Note to all opposition politicians: nobody in the real world now believes (if, indeed they ever did) your excuses about fearing a “no deal” exit, or needing more time to scrutinise a Withdrawal Agreement most of which has already been, in its earlier incarnation, scrutinised to exhaustion. As this column has observed before, the people are not fooled.

No, we definitely are not!  This lot are clinging to their Parliamentary places because they know 'The Peeps' are poised with an electoral axe which will see the end of their perks and privileges.  They really are the dregs:

But the need to replace the opposition is not just because of the insoluble Brexit stalemate. We have reached a historic milestone of a different order. I cannot recall a time – in nearly half a century of observing British politics – when the quality, professionalism and intellectual performance of opposition MPs has been as grotesquely inadequate as it is now. [My emphasis]

Just think Jeremy Corbyn, Ian Blackford, Jo Swinson and … well the list goes on.  Oliver Cromwell put it better than anyone:

"You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"

HEAR, HEAR!

 

 

Comments

[Whitewall]

Last time Parliament gave the peeps a vote on a weighty matter, the peeps 'misvoted'.

[Glesga]

Whitewall, Mrs May who was shocked that the peeps voted to leave the EU then called a general election and lost her majority which was a win for her. She was a remainer.

[Whitewall]

Jimmy, I don't know if the people will trust Parliament ever again. There seems to be a lot of this sort of thing going on in the world today. All over the world normal people are fed up with corrupt incompetent and entitled governing classes. The peasants are revolting!