Firstly,
may I urge you all to sign the petition on change.org
calling for the resignation of Dominic Cummings? Of course, he shouldn’t be given the
opportunity to resign, he should be fired, but the person who would have to act
with alacrity, authority and some moral force is the Blond Buffoon, so no luck
there.
It does seem rather like indulging in an
unsavoury blood sport to attack Matt gi’
us a job Beckett, the man whose moral compass can be turned between meals
without ruining your appetite, who after attacking the randy professor for
breaking the distancing rules to welcome his mistress to his house had to do a
180 degree turn and justify Cummings breaking of the rules.
Cummings we should remind ourselves had
symptoms of Covid-19, whereas the Randy Prof was symptom free, and the Prof’s
tryst did not involve a 600 mile round trip, with stops, to spread the
infection.
The press-ganged ministers forced to
humiliate themselves (except for Gove, of course, who probably ‘means’ what he
says, which speaks volumes for his despicable character) by enthusiastic
professions of support for someone they probably hate and fear were just as
predictably weasel-wordedly vile as you would have predicted – though, from an
English teacher’s viewpoint, transcripts of their ‘support’ would make a
fascinating portfolio for the student of linguistics, social linguistics,
politics, morality, truth, doublespeak and so on.
As a kid I used to wonder at the articulacy
of politicians who, after a second’s thought when faced with a poser of a
question were able to speak in connected sentences, give a rounded performance,
ending in a burst of applause and have said nothing at all!
I was obviously a good student because,
during one public meeting I was called on to give an answer to a question that,
had I been forthright would have condemned the person sitting next to me. I got to my feet, I spoke and, when I had
finished I was thanked for my explanation.
An explanation that very carefully gave no useful information at all –
and I had my round of applause!
Having done it oneself, it is easier to
discern in others and indeed, bemoan the inexpert way in which most politicians
now fail to master the technique. To be
fair, questioning is not as reverential as it was in my youth, but ministers do
have aids who prep them for the obvious questions that they are likely to
encounter though as with for example, the Blond Buffoon, preparation is only as
good as it is thorough and the Buffoon, as is known, is not famous for his
application!
The Goblin Gove is a ‘person’ who seems to
thrive on difficult questioning, but this is only because he is able to
disassociate himself completely from past history, truth and accountability in
his answers. The latitude of what might
laughingly be referred to, as his moral compass must afford him the smug luxury
of expansiveness in his fluently empty rhetoric.
As Sunday morning progresses, so we are
finding more people condemning Cummings’ breaking of the lockdown and even
Conservative MPs are calling for his resignation – though I still think he
should be sacked, by the Blond Buffoon who needs to get more acclimatized to
U-Turns, especially as we get nearer and nearer to a no-deal, hard Brexit!
As the day wears on the situation with
Cummings appears a little clearer. Only
7 conservative MPs have thrown their careers in the party down the loo by
coming out against Cummings and urging his sacking, while over 50 Conservative
MPs have expressed support. As one
commentator pointed out although Cummings obviously did something wrong and
against the rules that he helped frame, the ministers who tried to explain away
his crime are even worse as they have jettisoned, or at least called into
question, the whole governmental strategy for the saving of lives by
concentrating on saving a single career.
As another commentator pointed out, this ministerial circling of the
waggons is also an expensive squandering of governmental authority.
My concern is hardly dispassionate as I
regard this government as a travesty, but at a time of national crisis I am
also acutely aware (as the government signally isn’t) that any mismanagement
will result in even more deaths. I
sincerely hope that Cummings is consigned to the scrapheap, but while his
political demise would be a bright spot in the darkness of the rule of The
Blond Buffoon and his Cabinet of No Talents, I am much more concerned about the
efficient management of the Covid virus and eliminating it.
But a little political blood is
acceptable!
I
have just watched the Blond Buffoon’s performance in the daily press conference
and I feel slightly sick. Johnson was
asked questions that he could not, or chose not to answer. He asserted that Cummings behaved honourably,
but was unable to draw any clear distinction between similar cases where
individuals, at great personal cost, had followed governmental guidelines
unlike Cummings.
Johnson provided us with a shoddy
performance. It was unconvincing and
positively degrading to watch. He
insulted the intelligence of his audience and he devalued the government that
he leads.
In future press conferences it would be
more seemly for Mr Cummings to take the podium, as he is clearly the person in
charge and not the buffoon who fronted today’s fiasco.
Johnson drew distinctions that did not
exist and he asked us to exonerate Cummings behaviour by repeating his
perceptions of its moral worth rather than giving any concrete explanations
about how what was allowable for Cummings should not be taken as a general
rule. If the ‘guidance has not changed’
how can Cummings’ selfish behaviour possibly be right.
I now feel that the resignation of
Cummings is almost irrelevant. Johnson is
the one who should be considering his position because, as a prime minister he
now has, in a phrase that I loved when used about the much missed prime
minister May, having “about as much authority as the 'Do not tumble dry' instruction on
clothes”.
R.I.P Premiership: Johnson, May, 2020.
