ANOTHER week, another Prime Minister. Richboy Sunak is back with his expensive designer suits. Though who knew Norman Wisdom was a designer?
He was the least-worst option, better than icy-faced Penny Mordaunt, who permanently appears to have a bad smell under her nose. Failure perhaps?
He was certainly better than the other alternative – Johnson. But then Larry the cat would have been better than him – at least he was known to put in a day's work.
None of his swooning fans, like Rees-Mogg, thought to question why the ex-PM was on his third foreign holiday in two months, when he should have been representing his constituents at Westminster.
And, lying to the end, he claimed he had the numbers to challenge Sunak, but it wasn't the right time. Yeah. We know he is self-serving and without a shred of dignity. It's just disappointing that Conservative voters also know this, but don't care, since 90 per cent of them tell pollsters they'd still vote for him.
Trump also inspires similar levels of insane, cult-worship that defies reason. Mark Twain was right: "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."
Speaking of which, Liz Truss showed she was not deserving of a shred of pity when she went in front of her absurd, Jenga-style podium to insist she was still right. Not a word of apology to the millions facing higher mortgage payments, or for the damage she's caused to the wider economy. Utterly shameless.
But amidst the relief that she's gone and BoJo's planned resurrection has stalled, it's important to remember that Sunak is an even more convinced Brexiteer whose instincts are on the right-wing spectrum of the Conservatives. He couldn't even persuade his wife to pay tax when he was Chancellor.
This is also the man who backs sending refugees to Rwanda and boasted to Tunbridge Wells Tories during his previous leadership campaign that he had worked to undo Labour's policy of allocating funding to deprived urban areas. That's his idea of levelling up, I suppose.
He's also brought back the ghastly Cruella Braverman, in a dodgy deal with the extreme nutters wing to support his candidacy. So much for his ethical approach. Last Wednesday she was sacked from the Home Office for breaking the ministerial code. Clearly a week really is a long time in politics.
The news that Dominic Raab is also back to the Justice department shows that this is more of the same - a government of none of the talents.
I suppose it's all good news for the Labour Party who can join with the Lib Dems and the SNP in continuing to call for a general election, safe in the knowledge that it won't happen.
And with a winter of discontent ahead with soaring food prices, public sector strikes and looming spending cuts, it might be wise to sit it out for a while longer.
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I WAS working at the BBC when the first Glider service began in 2018 and it was greeted there like the second coming.
There were interviews ahead of its launch and excited live inserts to radio programmes while transport experts were called to assess how it would transform travel in Belfast for those wanting to travel from east to west.
Reporters and camera crews were dispatched for viewers to share in the thrill of the ride on, er... a big bus.
Because for all the hype – that's all it was. A bus that was longer than the others, though with fewer seats. But most importantly, it was given its own lane – not just at peak travel times, but all day.
I was underwhelmed then, and I'm equally underwhelmed now that the north-south route has been announced, with an estimated price tag of £142 million.
It's not an efficient tram service like we see in other cities, it's not the Luas, it's another bus. And it isn't even electric.
It's a very laudable aim to encourage people out of their cars in this congested city and Glider fans say this has proved successful.
But why don't transport providers just do the simple things, like providing enough buses throughout the day on all routes. They could also do something with the timetables to prevent them bunching up and then speeding down the road, two and three at a time, so that you don't just miss one, you miss a fleet.
They might also dream up a system that doesn't require you to go to the city centre, and out again but also provides routes in all directions.
