Politically Homeless

Among the few remaining areas in which Fishy Rishi's floundering administration can convincingly rival Team Starmer is, of course, breach of promise. Having shown how seriously he takes the housing crisis by palming it off on the jabbering homunculus Michael Gove, Fishy Rishi has procrastinated unto this eleventh hour over the Conservatives' manifesto commitment to reform the law on private renting. In fairness, the commitment was made by the National Johnson and therefore can hardly be said to have counted even before that statesman's moral repudiation; but the jabbering homunculus and one or two others are populist enough or stupid enough to take it seriously. Meanwhile the Conservative Party's landlord wing is flapping noisily at the prospect of losing its right to arbitrary eviction without appeal; so it remains as yet unclear exactly how far along the Team Starmer route of dilution, emasculation and self-contradiction Fishy Rishi will have the courage to venture.