JUST when you thought that British politics could not get any more ridiculous then Jeremy Corbyn goes and appoints Diane Abbott as shadow home secretary.
But Corbyn's cabinet of second raters is the least of our worries as the Tory government showed their true colours over the last week.
Mrs May is a puritanical politician - a Cromwell in a skirt. This is no liberal, soft, one nation Conservative. That era ended with the reign of the Tory Toffs - David Cameron and George Osborne. It's ironic that these sons of privilege could well be missed as we grapple with the rule of Hyacinth Bucket.
Mrs May says she wants to build a country where it doesn't matter where you come from. A nice soundbite but it came only hours after Amber Rudd said that British firms should publish lists of the foreign workers they employ. Mrs Rudd wants to shame British companies that don't give preference to British workers.
Mr Hunt, the secretary of state for health then rather haughtily said that foreign doctors working in our health service could work on until there were more British doctors in the system.
In fact the Tories have stamped the NHS into the ground until British doctors in their hundreds now prefer to use their skills in Canada, the US and Australia rather than the UK.
A quarter of all doctors currently working in the NHS are foreign nationals and that excludes GPs.
India and the Philippines contribute the largest amount of workers into the health service exploding another Brexit myth that controlling immigration had anything to do with the EU.
If these key workers are amongst those to be repatriated where are all these eager British workers hiding? Ireland too provides the fourth largest employment bloc within the British NHS.
Make no bones about it - this government is not pitching to the centre ground of British politics but one which is trying to implement extremely dangerous right-wing policies by dressing them up in populist themes.
Theresa May would make Margaret Thatcher blush with embarrassment at being out-flanked by the policies of this administration.
Far from healing a divided Britain and a fractured Union post the referendum Mrs May is fast becoming the PM for middle England and very little else. The heads of the devolved regions are being treated like pet poodles.
The reality is that the Tories have no voices of consequence outside of England apart from their Sturgeon-lite leader in Scotland. In Northern Ireland the Tories could fit into an Ulsterbus.
The Tory press and the blue rinse brigade in Birmingham may have liked the PM's speech but it went down like a lead balloon internationally.
Former UK business secretary and EU commissioner Peter Mandelson was in the US last week and said that her red lines on immigration and sovereignty had sent disastrous signals abroad about the future of Britain.
By not waiting to trigger Article 50 until after the French and German elections, May is also forcing the hand of Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande in a negative way as neither can now afford to be seen to be overly generous to the UK.
Access to the single market seems an impossibility with her red lines on borders and immigration.
May boasted of Great Britain being the fifth biggest economy of in the world but before her speech ended it was the international community that was having a wry smile as Britain looked a little less great as it slipped from fifth to sixth in the world rankings.
In a very understated British way the prime minister said it would be a bumpy ride along the Brexit route but economic forecasters were more blunt, the UK they say is heading back to its position of 2008, a recession from which we are still recovering.
More imminent is the prospect of sterling equalling the value of the Euro and perhaps the dollar. That means there is less value to the money in our pockets.
Maybe the Tory strategy for creating northern powerhouses is just that with Britons not being able to afford to holiday any further away than Blackpool, Whitley Bay or Skegness.
Stormont's relevancy is questionable as the big boys in London, Brussels, Paris, and Berlin now play roulette with the future of Europe. And our chips are held by Dublin not London.
