Another change

In a way, I am sad to note Sir Keir Starmer's resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I would be fully prepared to accept that he meant well, but the way he went about matters eventually left him with no other option. 

After the Conservatives kept changing their leaders, there was hope that Labour would be a stable breath of fresh air. It turned into the same stale guff, so voters turned to Reform UK out of sheer exasperation in last month's local elections. 

Andy Burnham was elected on a 55% share of the vote in the Makerfield by-election last week - so he is now carrying the hope of the nation. He is likely to be elected leader of the Labour Party so, I can only say: Actions speak louder than words.

Gilets jaunes

Following a discussion with one of my local FB contacts, I have an idea. Why don't we start a yellow-vest movement in the UK (along the lines of France, minus the violence) to protest against a political system that is no longer fit for purpose.

Conservatives: the clue is in the first three letters of their name. Brexit is a con, a ruse to plaster over the festering sore that's existed within the Tory party for 45 years.

Labour is labouring under its own principles, under a leader to whom Constructive Ambivalence is attributed - who has not got the strength of purpose to speak out for what he really stands for. Anti-semitism, anti-EU, anti-everything, he's only interested in a campaign, not in the end result. And neither does the party have the strength to take him to task over it.

Finally, the Scottish National Party strives for independence; I think it's time Scotland was independent of the SNP. They stand for nothing else.