I don't mean petered out, the way it usually does, it feels as though it has just suddenly stopped, from one day to the next.
Why isn't he resigning? What will it take for us to demand better from the people who are put in office for us and subsidised by us to do a job? We just don't seem to care anymore and every day they push the boundaries of acceptable behaviour further and further.
I know the running joke within the civil service is how short the public's memory is but surely we don't just move on from one day to the next?
I feel like starting a petition - is there a petition anywhere? I don't even know what I'd be asking for. Alexander de Pfefferwhatever out? And all his cronies? More transparency? Basic common decency? The introduction of proportional representation? I mean how broken does our system have to get before we stop looking at utterly corrupt dictatorships elsewhere and thinking "at least we're not...." ?