HUNG, drawn and slaughtered.

When a hung parliament Prime Minister supports the Premier League’s ultimate draw specialist manager a shared result – and a less-than-popular blue-blooded leader taking a battering in the opinion polls – are the inevitable outcomes.

Villa fan David Cameron refrained from joining the cheeky ‘1-0 to the boring team’ chants from the claret and blue faithful when it looked like Alex McLeish’s side were about to loot Loftus Road for all three points.

But, after another hard-going 90 minutes for Villa’s hardy supporters, even the PM must have wished he’d stayed away and done something more fun, leafing through the Lib-Dem manifesto perhaps.

The McLeish manifesto is still being re-drafted and even the floating voters prepared to give him a chance are not taking too kindly to this policy of frustrating, frightened football.

Villa’s first-half display was as bad as against Bolton in the Carling Cup, indeed it was as bad as most of the 1,701 travelling fans will have been able to recall for many years.

Initially, it was difficult to tell who were the Premier League newcomers and who were the established top-flight force. Adel Taarabt’s sixth-minute curler, which clipped the outside of the post with Shay Given at full stretch, was a significant snapshot of QPR’s storming start, while Villa backed off so much they were nearly in among their own supporters behind the goal.

Early on, Richard Dunne and James Collins struggled to live with Jay Bothroyd in the air or on the deck as the former Wolves striker fired a deflected effort wide and headed just off target. He also roughed up the no-nonsense defenders with his aerial challenges.

While Rangers were running through Hoops for their manager, Stephen Ireland and co were going through the motions for theirs.

If the whole ground ironically cheering Villa’s first corner was not evidence enough of Villa’s attacking impotence, then the QPR chants of ‘boring, boring Villa’ certainly were.

However, for all QPR’s positive play and for all Villa’s lethargy, Given did not have a single save to make during the first 45 minutes, unlike his opposite number Paddy Kenny.

The Hoops stopper, a lot like many of McLeish’s men, was a spectator for most of the opening period, but he kept his concentration to thwart Barry Bannan on the stroke of half-time.

Bannan’s cracking free-kick after Anton Ferdinand fouled Gabby Agbonlahor, was heading for the right corner, before Kenny dived to his left to claw away the effort with a stunning stop.

The only other attacking assault a player in claret and blue launched before the break was when Stephen Warnock clattered into Joey Barton just before half-time.