Where's Charles Bronson when you need him?

Perhaps unsurprisingly Mandy has been appointed our ambassador to the United States. This certainly says something about the ‘Snake' (LWT) the 'Crab' (Prescott) and the 'Yuk’s' (everybody) capacity for worming his way around the establishment but also reflects on Starmer’s lack of judgement. Where Mandy goes, trouble follows. At a deeper level (in this rather shallow swimming pool) we can achingly see Starmer’s inability to shift gear away from the nostrums of New Labour (to mix metaphors). Where new thinking is required, we’re going to have a very slightly polished but ultimately dim reflection of our delusional ‘special relationship’ hawked round Washington. How long should we wait before we see Mandy’s remarkable political attennae bringing us a ‘great’ free trade deal and a common sense relationship with the Imbecile in the White House? Trump will be wondering why his chum Fartage wasn’t chosen. And Nige will make political capital out of his rejection even though he was never in the running—merely proving once again to his followers' delight that he is an insurgent against the establishment. Somehow the Musk money will flow more freely to Reform UK Ltd. If Musk has any sense it’ll flow before the law tightens up although there’s no guarantee that will happen.
 
Meanwhile the government’s war on pensioners continues and the water companies have been given the green light to rack up prices well beyond inflation (which itself has risen again). Has this government got a death wish? We're all being mugged - in more ways than one.