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Betty regurgitating on Wednesday a Queen’s Speech dictated to her by David Cameron nails the lie Europe makes most of Britain’s laws, yet all the ridiculous Ruritanian pomp and ceremony can’t hide this is a Tory administration running out of steam.

In many ways we can be relieved that, 12 months after the Prime Minister stumbled back into Downing Street with an unlikely if slender majority, this Conservative Government is as directionless as an unsteady drunk going in circles after chucking-out time.

Dozens of U-turns are humiliating evidence of ill-conceived positions when clueless Cameron never expected to implement many of his crazy ideas, hoping a second ConDem coalition would stop him axing tax credits or burdening every school in England with bureaucratic upheaval.

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Instead, a bolshie Labour opposition more effective than it’s given credit for, the solid block of obstructionist Scottish Nationals and Conservative rebels with their own causes form shifting alliances to save Britain from the worst excesses of Torydom’s ideological zealots.

My advice to Jeremy Corbyn is publish your own Alternative Queen’s Speech this week to showcase what Labour would do, while simultaneously dismantling Cameron’s sorry excuse for a programme.

Top of Labour’s list would be Thursday’s launch of the most comprehensive study, what these days is called a conversation, on job rights for workers and the self-employed in this century.

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The bold initiative by Corbyn, Shadow Business Secretary Angela Eagle and trade union adviser and Wansbeck MP Ian Lavery packs a punch by extending far beyond Labour’s comfort zone in organised workplaces.

In an era when insecurity and the fear of plummeting earnings are permanent threats, Labour’s offer to the electorate could prove attractive when the Tories view rights at work with the hatred of an 18th Century colliery owner demanding docile slaves.

The easy part of opposition is opposing an incompetent, often nasty Tory Government. The tougher bit is crafting a manifesto a big-tent Labour party can unite around.

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Newly elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan uses his stunning victory for hope against the forces of hatred to illustrate the success of broad appeal, invoking the B-word to remind his party that Blair, whatever his faults (and Iraq was a catastrophe), knew how to win.

Corbyn’s yet to find his voice to communicate beyond enthusiastic disciples who believe he walks on water.

Social justice and economic prosperity are twin goals of New and Old Labour, pursuing the interests of the poor and middle classes for the common good.

Either Labour unites and appears credible, or the Queen’s speeches will continue to be written by Tories beyond 2020.