Rachel Reeves and David Lammy may as well claim the dog ate their homework

The dog ate my homework. That is surely the only excuse yet to be deployed by this increasingly contemptible government. Two prisoners, one a sex offender from Algeria, are wrongly freed from jail with Labour proclaiming the "strongest ever checks" had been put in place after an Ethiopian sex pest was freed in error last month, but it's the fault of the system being "too paper-based."

The farcical "one in, one out" scheme is exposed yet again after an Iranian migrant who returned to the UK by small boat after being sent back to France has been removed AGAIN, but this is due to it being in "the pilot stage." The economy is hanging in rags, but the Chancellor blames Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Covid and Brexit. If Rachel Reeves had gone any further back, presumably it could have been the fault of the Luftwaffe.

The number of people choosing to go on the welfare state rather than work continues to soar, but this is due to actions taken by the previous Conservative government.

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy reminds us all of the significance of Remembrance Sunday, "Lest we Forget," - but forgets to wear a poppy as he filled in at Prime Minister's Questions. The reason being he had bought a new suit!

It's worth remembering the Government has been in power for 16 months and is weeks away from completing its first full year in office, yet still time after time they cling to the excuse of 14 years of Tory misrule as they seek, ever more desperately, to dodge the blame for a seemingly endless series of fiascos.

But as each new crisis rolls in, we see them for what they are: a lacklustre, ill-prepared bunch of political chancers who were prepared to pledge or say anything to get into power.

The absurdity is this, they never needed to make those 'easy-to-bake-easy-to-break piecrust promises' before last year's election. The country was through with the talent puddle that was the remnants of the Conservative Party, and was ready to boot them out without a bunch of bribes that remain undelivered.

But if "Calamity Lammy's" excuse was the most inane of the excuses, a blinking and at times stuttering Rachel Reeves' was the most implausible.

One minute she'd "fixed the foundations" but the next they were still in freefall. Ours was the fastest growing economy in the G7 and borrowing costs were down at one point, but then she'd discovered another gaping black hole that had to be filled. We have the best trade deal with the United States, but bizarrely she said we are also buffeted by tariffs.

But the moment that made me laugh out loud was when she said: "I want to be honest."

Seriously! If she wants to talk about "gaping holes," how about the ones on her banking CV? And if she was so steadfast in her pledge of honesty, what about the two stories she told within 24 hours about the lack of a rental licence for her property in South London?

The Government must realise the only excuse much of the public now recognises, is this 'excuse' of a government the current buck-passing crew are.