Also, with the Miliband thing people get super excited but it makes absolutely no difference to what is going to happen. What might make a difference is that law and order Tories revolt maybe.
I agree, to a point - it does make you wonder what the opposition is really for, when the government has such a big majority. Should Labour MPs just avoid Westminster for three years, concentrate on constituency issues and then come back when it's time to gear up for the next general election? Which sounds kind of defeatist - "letting them get away with it" - but, as you say, they're getting away with it anyway.
Same with Private Eye (mainly) and Marina Hyde "artfully skewering those idiots in Westminster" - it's just smug. Making sure you laugh at the latest bit of the political soap opera, oh it is all so terrible and how can they possibly get away with it (same as last week).
Not sure the Eye, which still does proper deep investigative journalism, is really in the same category as Hyde's "skewerings". But what's surprised me over the last few months has been the level of criticism from the right-wing papers. It'd be quite funny if the eventual undoing of the Johnson-Cummings project (or Cummings-Johnson project, rather) turned out not to be the Guardian/Observer, Independent and New Statesman, but the Murdoch titles, Telegraph and Mail.