Accepting that there are individuals who revolt us
who do not fall into the category above (e.g. Theresa May laying the ground for
the racist Windrush scandal while Home Secretary – seeing it come to fruition
during her premiership then leaving one of her cabinet ministers to resign on
her behalf!!!) there is a pattern none the less.
As a rule of thumb - none of the misdemeanours below
seem to bar privileged white men either from tax-payer funded salaries or positions of
power. Some of these things would put the rest of us in jail…
I provide a handy contemporary example for each –
Proven dishonesty (Tony Blair, Trump, Kavanaugh)
Embarrassing personality flaws (too many to mention)
Incompetence (too many to mention)
Homophobia (Trump, Ex Liberal leader – Tim Farron)
Incarceration of infants (Trump)
Misogyny (too many to mention)
Mocking Muslim women (Boris Johnson)
War crimes (Tony Blair)
Fiddling expenses or fraud to the rest of us (too many UK MPs to list)
Mocking the disabled and war heroes (Trump)
Sexual assault (Trump, Kavanaugh)
Complete lack of judgement (too many to mention)
Sexual predation of girls (Judge Roy Moore)
Corruption (too many to mention)
Necrophiliac bestiality (Cameron)
Laziness/stupidity (Trump)
General Uselessness (Corbyn)
Racism / jingoism / xenophobia (Trump, Farage, Boris
Johnson etc)
Lack of backbone (The entire GOP - Nick Clegg)
Venality (Trump)
Fraud / tax evasion (Trump)
Being generally revolting (Trump, Boris Johnson,
Kavanaugh etc)
And then the list just descends in to depressing crap - MP's using time the public pay for to watch pornography or simply using their time in office to enrich their families and line up lucrative jobs afterwards etc.
In conclusion, the answer to my question of last
week is – much lower…