So here we are...

...back again.  Big news while I was away is of course the calling of a General Election on June 8th.  But, but, but... I thought we'd done away with this idea of the Prime Minister calling an election whenever it suited - more to the point whenever the figures were in her favour.  OK, she may have got the necessary parliamentary majority, but I can't help feeling that this whole business goes against the spirit of the Fixed Term Parliament Act - indeed has that Act any purpose any more?