Minnie’s Musings

And govern, please.

The latest bout of infighting, briefing, rumour mongering etc etc that has yet again engulfed the Labour Party is way too reminiscent of the Tories during the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak years.

Heads need to be cracked together at Millbank (Labour Party HQ). And in Downing Street, knuckles wrapped, send to bed without supper, the naughty step if necessary .

As they so often like to tell us, MPs work very hard on our behalf. For a healthy pay packet. So it would be really nice if they did just that.

Starmer has a personality bypass. So what? Steering probably does have closet ambitions. Let him wait. Burned has out and proud ambitions. And shot his bolt way too soon. Corbyn is showing his complete inability to organise a p*ss up in a brewery stage left. So blo*dy what???!

Add to that newbies on the block who have failed to navigate the complexities of the tax system, property legislation, trusts and any manner of complex legal systems which the world and his mother stumble through on a daily basis. They have rectified their mistakes so should be allowed to move on. Would that we could give someone, somewhere, the benefit of the doubt.

Personally, I am way more interested in whether my new knee will float into view sometime in the next year as I inch my way up a waiting list (once they have put me on it, which is dependent on whether I lose another couple of pounds, which is dependent on me avoiding the crisp aisle), whether useful action on getting young people out of bed and into school/training/work is taken, whether a tiny smidgeon of my disposable income will be redirected into essential funding for social care.

With important debates happening on the sidelines, we seem to be having our attention directed to political shenanigans rather than progress in any direction. I think progress is happening. It is slow and bumpy. But I think it is happening.

If attention is focused on said progress, we might trundle down that road a bit quicker. Because it would be really great to see the light at the end of a tunnel. Any tunnel. Don’t mind which.