No sooner have Members of Parliament returned from their Easter holiday than all hell has resumed at Westminster and government of our nation remains in turmoil.
Prime Minister Theresa May has no authority in Parliament nor over her MPs, and has lost the confidence of party members nationwide; in all normal circumstances, she would have resigned or been forced from office but, with no one able to forge a realistic consensus over the vexed subject of Brexit, her party appears completely incapable of agreeing on any way forward. Even yesterday, a meeting of Conservative back-bench MPs failed to agree on what to do next and, in the absence of any coherent challenge to her, Mrs May remains stubbornly and doggedly determined to stay in post for as long as she deems necessary.
Astonishingly, at this time of national crisis and humiliation, both Mrs May and the Marxist, pro-IRA leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, have decided to forego attendance at today's Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons and have, instead, decided to travel to Northern Ireland to attend the funeral of a largely unknown journalist who was shot there last week. Why such an occasion should be considered more important than dealing with matters of state, when neither May nor Corbyn would habitually attend funerals of other victims of terrorism, is a question for which there can be only one real answer - they both want to keep out of the way and avoid answering awkward questions. That said, it seems that Leo Varadkar, the Irish Taoiseach will also be attending so perhaps it creates an opportunity for May and Corbyn to attempt some diplomatic skulduggery.
Our political masters seem to have lost all touch with the people whom they are supposed to represent and to whom they are supposed to be accountable. They are squabbling amongst themselves like small children arguing over who will get the biggest Easter egg. In the end, as with the children, they will find all of the eggs taken away from them and themselves sent to bed early. For our politicians this translates into apathy and disaffection at the polling booths in next week's local council elections and, if they happen, total annihilation at the European elections scheduled for 23rd May.
What an appalling mess our leaders have created.
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