Well, that was some 24 hours. Another shower of absolute dopes in Cabinet.
The only appointment of which we approve is that of John Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer who has replaced the dreadful Rachel Reeves. And we'll give Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden, the benefit of the doubt.
Other than that it's incompetent after incompetent.
Well, Andy, that didn't take long, did it? A matter of only minutes into your Premiership and you appoint The Right Honourable Louise Haigh PC as First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Secretary of State for Transport!!!!!
Louise Haigh is a convicted criminal. Some years ago she pled guilty to a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice when she alleged falsely to the Police that her mobile phone had been stolen. The circumstances are as murky as Ms Haigh herself.
We are all for forgiving and forgetting and all that but bearing false witness against anyone is something we take with the utmost seriousness. It is a particularly horrible crime and is not remotely a minor breach of the law. With judgement like this in appointing Ms Haigh to important public roles, the electorate are going to turn against you - and it won't be long either.
Sadly, it's just as we thought it might be. You have no sense of propriety whatsoever or any sense of decency. Just whatever it takes in your own personal interests.
You conned the people of Manchester. It is infinitely more difficult to con the rest of us.
We understand The Right Honourable Andrew (Andy) Burnham PC will become Prime Minister tomorrow.
It is not something we are looking forward to for four reasons. Firstly, he has no mandate from the public; secondly, he's yet another Socialist class warrior; thirdly, the intellect required for the job simply isn't there; and, fourthly, his hero is the one-time Leader of the Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, better known in his heyday as The Welsh Windbag.
There is much anguish within the chattering classes as to who will be in the Cabinet and, especially, who will be Chancellor. Our own view is that it will not matter a toss as they are all a shower of abject idiots anyway.
The dust has settled a bit, at least for now. Let's have a look.
Poor Peter is slumming his sentence of 5 years and 3 months at His Majesty's Prison Dumfries. Nicola is living in London lording it up in the fancy wine bars of Notting Hill and couldn't give a toss about her man - or anyone else for that matter. She's the very coldest of very cold fishes. She's the classic psychopath.
Nicola has long hated England, the English and Tories. She has said so on many occasions. Those are her passions in life. The irony of seeking refuge in England is completely lost on her. 'I'm a victim too', she moaned of her husband. Me, me, me, me forever. Frankly, Scotland is well shot of her and, with a bit of luck, it is eternal.
So, there is currently quite a difference in their respective fortunes. We couldn't care less about the poisonous and ghastly Nicola but we hope Peter will use his time wisely in the nick and reform into becoming a good citizen. Our advice to him is to write his memoirs and provide some sort of accurate record as to those long-running events of yesteryear.
His memoirs would make him a fortune, many times the price of the assets he purloined. And those memoirs would be infinitely more entertaining than any self-serving rubbish coming from Nicola's £5,000 pen.
So, Mr A Burnham is the latest MP for the Makerfield constituency. The unrefined Northern Labour Party machine politician won the day.
Starmer is, admittedly, a dreadful Prime Minister but we would prefer him any day of the week to Burnham. Burnham is a self-promoting opportunistic chancer with the biggest ego on Planet Earth. We simply don't like the cut of his jib. His victory is anything but a good omen for UK politics. And we will never, ever trust an ageing politician who adds colouring to his greying hair.
If the Labour Party had any sense left it would take a lurch to the Right well away from the Soviet-style politics practised by Starmer, Reeves & Company. However, should 'Grecian Boy' Burnham ever become Prime Minister, it would be a gigantic leap to the Left draining the confidence of the Financial Markets. And we all know where that would lead us - job losses, more job losses and even more job losses still.
With Mr Burnham in charge the country would be well and truly doomed. He's the ultimate chancer.
54 year old Roz Foyer is the firebrand General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Like every other trade union official in the country, Roz has a very loud mouth and is ready to criticise anything and everything under the sun. Except herself, of course.
Lately, it has come to light that Roz, who 'believes strongly in the redistribution of wealth' (her words), owns five residential properties. Like the extraordinary hypocrite that she is, Roz finds nothing wrong with that. She's a millionaire several times over.
These Socialists never change - one rule for them and another rule for the rest of us.
Gaun yersel, lassie, and bugger the homeless.
The National Police Chiefs' Council is, as the name implies, the organisational umbrella for the most senior Police Officers in the United Kingdom. According to its blurb 'the NPCC brings UK Police Leaders together to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public'. That's the theory anyway.
We have long been critical of Police Leadership both north and south of the Border. Police Scotland is a dog's breakfast and we have no reason whatever to think that the Police south of the Border is in any better shape. A lot of Chief Constables and other senior ranks have found themselves in legal difficulties in recent years basically through lack of character and terrible failings in leadership.
In our view, far too many senior Police officers are being promoted nowadays without having the character required for the job. There are failings, terrible failings, in Police Forces up and down the country virtually every day of the week and most of those failings are caused by utterly inadequate leadership. Sadly, it is a fact of life that an inadequate and incompetent Police Leader will promote an equally inadequate and incompetent individual over a competent officer so that the vicious cycle of undeserved promotions continues unabated.
We despair with our head in our hands when we see some of the most senior Police officers in the country appear on television and in the Press sporting that ghastly facial stubble that seems to be an almost statutory requirement for senior ranks nowadays. They simply have no concept of just how ridiculous they present when they are seen more as scruffy Social Worker types than senior Police ranks. Perception does matter in the Police to a huge degree.
It doesn't just stop there. Senior Police ranks must nowadays be more steeped in Social Work Speak than policing and they must be politically correct at all costs. That political correctness has gone mad of late. Just look at what the National Police Chiefs' Manual says about racial problems in policing the UK when it reads that 'our commitment to racial equality does not mean treating everyone the same or being colour blind'.
Let's face it, only a shower of clowns could present anything like that for public consumption. And they wonder why there's always trouble about the cop shop - and not least that terrible incident at Southampton recently where a young student lost his life?
Best foot forward.
