I AM tempted to follow the example of Len Shackleton who, possibly inspired by Lawrence Stern in Tristram Shandy, wrote a chapter in his book, The Clown Prince of Soccer, entitled, "The Average Director's Knowledge of Football". It consisted of one blank page.
My blank chapter would be titled, "The commitment of Starmer to socialism."
I ask you, I ask myself, for what possible reason might Starmer have joined a political party called Labour? People have told me that we should put to one side the humanity-based values of Corbyn in order to concentrate upon winning power. I don't believe that such values should ever be demoted. But supposing the 'power first, values second' people are right, how close has Starmer brought Labour to power?
Almost 79 I have never experienced a government of this country that was so lethally inept. Johnson is setting a standard below which it is impossible to fall. I wrote once that to watch Cameron, then May, then Johnson at work was to witness a political limbo dancing competition. Each time the bar was set so low that you were convinced the next dancer could not get beneath it, but they did.
Starmer is taking a penalty kick. The goalie is off the field trying to tie up his laces. The ref blows for the penalty to be taken. Right-winger Starmer waits for the goalie to get back between the posts and then passes the ball to him.
If politics is a game of footy why play to lose? To use good old-fashioned terminology, why take the field with no left-back, no left-half and no left-winger?
As a right-winger, Starmer ain't no Stanley Mathews.
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