Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowden said: "New year, same old platitudes from Keir Starmer" while skirting around sundry empty promises made by his boss and the Coterie of Inadequates.
If I was to invest my faith in a politician I'd opt for one resembling an adult rather than a shambling, unkempt schoolboy.
TTT, you seem to be a gambler and a chancer, always keen to lay a bet, and so I can see why you identify with Johnson. Not everyone feels like you.
"And here's to you, my gambling boy, may all your gambles bring you joy...."
What is the point of an 80 seat majority when you have to rely on Labour to get your policies through because you have lost control of your own troops.
Boris has lost vision (if he ever had it). He is head of a shambles and people are beginning to get fed up with it.
You are right that Labour have a mountain to climb. I agree Starmer is no Edmund Hilary. But the mountain is melting. A trickle at first.
Your faith in Boris is touching. Your utter devotion is admirable.
But you are making a big mistake putting your faith in Johnson. He will let you down. Eventually.
Thatcher and Blair were successful because they were astute. And ruthless. Boris is neither.
He doesn’t have mindless drones, he surrounds himself with incompetent idiots. Patel, Hancock Raab - all spectacular failures, but he sticks by them because anyone with any talent is a threat to him. So they gradually get weaker. 29,000 swing against them. The trickle will be a strong current by 2024.
I think Keir has got the the wrong way round - he needs to restore faith and respect in order to win an election, not win on the basis of promising what should be delivered as a matter of course.
I would no more trust a party that would elect him, and Corbyn before him, and Milliband before him, to lead the country than I would trust Ted Bundy to escort a prom queen safely home.