Here's Johnny!

It won't be long now until we see John Hume being wheeled out to pose along side mini stoops, after all there's an election looming. As we all know $inn Fein has morphed into the SDLP (albeit with a few disappeared in closet). And the SDLP, well with no identity of their own they've morphed into the raving monster loony party or an aberration of it, with policies as coherent as Lord Sutch's to boot.

Now people are well used to $hinners sticking up a new plaque on a wall to give the party faithful something to do or holding a commemoration for a bucket that was kicked over by a Brit during a house raid in 1971. (And I must add what a fine bucket it was too, came from a long line of buckets that had served the republican cause well over the years.)

So it would seem this past number of years the SDLP have their own bucket to wheel out, this bucket has a name, this bucket is John Hume.

Sadly John Hume's health has deteriorated over the past few years, and it is a well know fact the man is not well and has major memory problems. Despite his poor health the SDLP wheel him out for photo op after photo op when they need to pretend they have some relevancy.

In light of this my dear Stoops can I point out two things.

1. Standing beside John Hume doesn't give you any credibility, it just means you've stood beside him, he doesn't have the fucking foggiest who you are. Leave the man alone.
   
   
2. If the basis for you building your political party can only come from wheeling out a former leader for a photo then give the fuck up now. 
   
   But if all else fails, you always have Mark H Durkan... and with that I'm away to laugh my balls off all the way to the pub.