Somehow between them, the Tory led coalition and the Labout Party leadership have made politics just a tad boring as we head into summer and Wimbledon and Scottish Strawberries.
I read the other day that when Mr Clegg played tennis against Mr Cameron at Chequers he was suprised at how competitive he was.
May be he should have played Chequers at Chequers?
And the Chancellor has all but slipped off the radar.
I have been looking out for a sighting on the grand yachts that have been tying up in Genova recently, just in case a Rothschild or some other wealthy ex Bullingdon Clubber is in town, but so far no sighting.
But equally no sightings in the news either, despite the savage cuts which affect the poorest most, there has been no calling to account by the commentariat just a mild form of tut tutting when people mention the reductions in benefits, after all it wouldn't do to become too associated with benefit fraudsters, even though there are far fewer benefit fraudsters than tax dodgers.
The coalition is trying to stitch its coalition coat together after its recent shredding in the referendum, just hope my vote counted and it wasn't lost in the post.
But the big issues are there as we get drawn ever deeper into Libya, at least until Gaddaffi decides to get over himself and move on without killing any more of his fellow country men by dropping bombs on them from helicopters painted with a Red Cross.
Another case for the Navy Seals?
But the changes that have been introduced, the economic illiteracy displayed by the false narrative of Labours' irresponsible spending and the inexorable collapse in public sector jobs with no evidence of private sector jobs being created to take up the economic slack, none of this is being challenged strongly or effectively by the labour leadership, raising suspicions about what actual policies they may have introduced if they had won the election.
The big society called for an increase in social responsibility, from whom, business?, the financial services sector? the Church?
Social responsibility was my business for nine years, well in fact for forty three years but from 1978 up to and including 1987, it was also my job title, amusingly punned on one occasion by a conservative member of the church in Newcastle as, the officer for Socialist Irresponsibility.
What he was referring to I can't now recall, it may have been when I asked for support for a community job creation scheme on one of the Cities outer estates, it may have been when I mounted a debate in support of Church Action on Poverty, of which I was a founder member, it may have been the Meadowell Project which is now over twenty five years old, which I started in association with a friend and colleague from North Tyneside Social Services.
Whichever piece of socialist irresponsibility it was, it was almost inevitably concerned with addressing the three problems most urgently facing Tyneside at that time, defined by the local authority spokesman to the Faith in the City Commission as Poverty, Poverty and Poverty.
Well if that is socialist irresponsibility it would be good to see some socialist irresponsibility being proposed by the current Labour leadership and a good old set to in Parliament and on the hustings, if only to liven things up a bit.
In Scotland the voters made a resounding statement, which was equally a judgement on the Labour Party and the Tory led coalition, even managing to overturn the built in corrective of AV which apparently was intended to ensure that there was never an overall majority at Holyrood.
Well now there is and it will be interesting to see where the SNP head next.
David Cameron is against breakin gup the Union and clearly, with all that is happening in Europe this is not a great time to become a peripheral nation in a centralising Europe, but at least it gives the rest of us an opportunity to watch an interesting match on Westminsters' centre court between the competitive Mr Cameron and Mr Salmond, the serial winner.
I read the other day that when Mr Clegg played tennis against Mr Cameron at Chequers he was suprised at how competitive he was.
May be he should have played Chequers at Chequers?
And the Chancellor has all but slipped off the radar.
I have been looking out for a sighting on the grand yachts that have been tying up in Genova recently, just in case a Rothschild or some other wealthy ex Bullingdon Clubber is in town, but so far no sighting.
But equally no sightings in the news either, despite the savage cuts which affect the poorest most, there has been no calling to account by the commentariat just a mild form of tut tutting when people mention the reductions in benefits, after all it wouldn't do to become too associated with benefit fraudsters, even though there are far fewer benefit fraudsters than tax dodgers.
The coalition is trying to stitch its coalition coat together after its recent shredding in the referendum, just hope my vote counted and it wasn't lost in the post.
But the big issues are there as we get drawn ever deeper into Libya, at least until Gaddaffi decides to get over himself and move on without killing any more of his fellow country men by dropping bombs on them from helicopters painted with a Red Cross.
Another case for the Navy Seals?
But the changes that have been introduced, the economic illiteracy displayed by the false narrative of Labours' irresponsible spending and the inexorable collapse in public sector jobs with no evidence of private sector jobs being created to take up the economic slack, none of this is being challenged strongly or effectively by the labour leadership, raising suspicions about what actual policies they may have introduced if they had won the election.
The big society called for an increase in social responsibility, from whom, business?, the financial services sector? the Church?
Social responsibility was my business for nine years, well in fact for forty three years but from 1978 up to and including 1987, it was also my job title, amusingly punned on one occasion by a conservative member of the church in Newcastle as, the officer for Socialist Irresponsibility.
What he was referring to I can't now recall, it may have been when I asked for support for a community job creation scheme on one of the Cities outer estates, it may have been when I mounted a debate in support of Church Action on Poverty, of which I was a founder member, it may have been the Meadowell Project which is now over twenty five years old, which I started in association with a friend and colleague from North Tyneside Social Services.
Whichever piece of socialist irresponsibility it was, it was almost inevitably concerned with addressing the three problems most urgently facing Tyneside at that time, defined by the local authority spokesman to the Faith in the City Commission as Poverty, Poverty and Poverty.
Well if that is socialist irresponsibility it would be good to see some socialist irresponsibility being proposed by the current Labour leadership and a good old set to in Parliament and on the hustings, if only to liven things up a bit.
In Scotland the voters made a resounding statement, which was equally a judgement on the Labour Party and the Tory led coalition, even managing to overturn the built in corrective of AV which apparently was intended to ensure that there was never an overall majority at Holyrood.
Well now there is and it will be interesting to see where the SNP head next.
David Cameron is against breakin gup the Union and clearly, with all that is happening in Europe this is not a great time to become a peripheral nation in a centralising Europe, but at least it gives the rest of us an opportunity to watch an interesting match on Westminsters' centre court between the competitive Mr Cameron and Mr Salmond, the serial winner.
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