There’s so many links on a similar theme from the weekend that I’m going to have to just do a short roundup instead of separate posts. First of all, Coffee House on Jackie Smith’s husband’s taste for blue movies, and what ridicule will mean for the government…

These revelations are so damaging because they will lead to the voters just laughing at the government. When the electorate rages at a government, its members can at least console themselves they are being taken seriously. But when they are being mocked, there is no such consolation.

I suspect that today’s papers will lead to the the G20 being covered in a far more mocking way than it would have been otherwise; the narrative has changed. Labour should prepare itself for a year that will be even more humiliating for it than the last year of the Major government with all its tabloid tales of Tory sleaze was for the Conservatives.

On Twitter, Fraser Speirs rightly said “this collapsing government makes the final days of Major’s government look like a golden age of morality past.” Iain Dale has been trying to hold back undeserved human sympathy for Jackie Smith – and asking when the last vote of No Confidence was (Come on David Cameron – the people want one!) Even Her Majesty The Queen wouldn’t stand up for the Prime Minister. Also, worth a re-link, Blue Eyes predicts a riot and is not happy about it.

The G20 summit is being set up to become a national embarrassment, our Prime Minister is being publicly attacked at home and abroad, the Home Secretary is humiliated on a personal level, Nigel Griffiths has caused a deep personal embarrassment to Gordon Brown, who was best man at his wedding. President Obama has personally asked to meet with the Leader of the Opposition, after snubbing Brown in the ‘DVDgate’ fiasco. Yet another building society has gone bust – remember when it happened to Northern Rock and it was a Big Deal? Nowadays it’s barely a footnote when the biggest building society in Scotland goes under.

The summer, it seems, will bring massive job losses, continuing economic recession, burgeoning debt (with the ever-hanging threat of IMF intervention) and the possibility of rampant inflation due to ‘Quantitative Easing’, a terrible euphemism for pumping money into the economy.

The future is not looking bright. I wonder, can this farce really go for another full year?