Groundhog Day for Queen

The Queen must be getting bored with her speech every year now. It is full of the same old rhetoric:

"Law and Order blah blah blah....."

"Reform of the House of Lords drivel, drivel, drivel..."

Fortunately New Labour's ability to Spin its way out of total failure is diminishing by the day. The danger of this is that as an election looms closer and closer they may get desperate and resort to punitive and totally undemocratic ways of sorting out our Law and Order problems and use their bully boy whipping tactics and the Parliament Act to get them through Parliament.

It would be great if they suddenly woke up and realised that the single most important thing they could do is to free up the police to allow them to do their job - getting out and serving the public instead of sitting behind desks doing the Government's bidding.