Friday 10th May

What a week David Cameron has had.  First the humiliation of seeing UKIP do so well in the local elections.  On top of which he was shown repeatedly and belatedly attempting to show some respect to the voters who had deserted him in droves, saying that it was no good insulting UKIP, only to be immediately followed by clips of him doing just that in an earlier tirade.   He is obviously running scared of them and had he had the chance would have rewritten the Queens Speech to be even harsher on Immigrants than it is attempting to be.  Ed Milliband was right when in his reply he said that no matter how much he, the PM, pandered to the Right, they would keep coming back for more.

We have had a succession of Tory Grandees coming out and saying that simply re-negotiating Europe will solve nothing.  Opening this Pandora’s box just a smidgeon means he cannot now close the lid again.  Europe is threatening to break up the Tories yet again.  It is the Corn Laws again on constant repeat.

Then to cap it all the Queens Speech, which was a pretty drab affair anyway, has been completely overshadowed by the surprise resignation of Fergie.  What should have been a news-topping free bit of Government publicity where new (and some old rehashed) policies are presented with all the pomp and ceremony the state can throw at it, even here there was more excitement because Charles and Camilla were there too, raising speculation about her Maj’s possible abdication in the near future.

And then Fergie goes and explodes his bombshell, and today’s papers and the News were full of his remarkable achievements.  Football fans of all persuasions were celebrating, and a really popular man was being lauded.  No matter what Cameron goes on to achieve, which will probably be very little, he will never touch our hearts as Fergie has done.