Labour are letting Theresa May off the hook by not acting like a real opposition
Labour is spending too much time giving speeches shoring up dimwit leader Jeremy Corbyn
THERESA May is starting to cop her first real flak as PM. But none of it makes a jot of difference while she has no opposition.
It matters to Britain how the Government performs, of course. It matters whether it makes the right calls on Brexit, Hinkley Point or grammar schools.
But without a functioning Labour Party no one will scrutinise whatever it decides.
The statistics we lay bare today show just how bad this has got. Fifteen out of 24 Shadow Cabinet members have secured ZERO answers from their opposite numbers in Government since June.
So either the Tory Cabinet is not answering their questions or, far more likely, Labour isn’t asking them.
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This will partly be because its top team are clueless about their briefs.
But it’s also because their time is consumed by ego-boosting leftie rallies, speeches shoring up dimwit leader Jeremy Corbyn and crazy plots against moderate MPs who still value power over protest.
Ex-Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnson is dead right when he calls Corbyn “useless”, “incompetent” and “incapable” of running Labour. The party has all but abandoned the field of battle.
A week from today its annual conference will begin. Corbyn will almost certainly have been re-elected leader. His followers will indulge in an orgy of delusional self-congratulation.
And the shambles will continue — with Britain the worse for it.
Anarchy in our jails
TOO many jails are violent, dangerous cesspits where drugs, weapons and illegal use of smartphones go unpunished.
The scenes from HMP Guys Marsh are an outrage, especially since the Prisons Inspectorate is already aware control there has “been all but lost”. Who is running it? Aside from the gangs?
As Justice Secretary, Michael Gove was making an admirable effort to turn jails and inmates around. Then he was fired.
His replacement Liz Truss must revive his ideas — and end the anarchy behind bars.
Don't let BBC execs hide
WHY are lavishly-paid BBC executives so terrified of scrutiny?
Some are so coy about £150,000-plus salaries being made public that they may cut theirs to drop below the threshold.
Beeb staff are paid with public money, extracted by force of law from TV owners. The way it’s spent should be transparent.
If BBC high-fliers believe they genuinely merit their megabucks, they should have the guts to stand up and be counted.
Not work a shifty deal to remain invisible.