Across the pond the creeps and the cronies, the
corrupt crawlers, the crass and the craven and the crap - the people with whom
Trump habitually surrounds himself, are getting a little of what we used to call
just deserts. Only the crazies
remain.
As they take turns in court to hear a new sentence (Manafort) or to be told that they may be incarcerated for contempt before they’ve even been tried (Stone) or
sit dog- faced, weary and diminished before The House Intelligence Committee
(Cohen) the list grows. The seediness is exceeded only by the strange
mundaneness of it all.
But here in the UK, nothing. The liars (Farage,
Gove etc) the racists (Farage, Johnson) the dullards (David Davis) hypocrites and lunatics (Ree Smogg)
and the growing list of incompetents (Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn +++) still
stand in Parliament, do press conferences, seem to believe they are in charge
of something and worth their pay cheques.
Dominic Raab – Minister (for about 4 months) for Exiting the EU who
admitted he didn’t understand the importance of the Calais to Dover trade route, is now being named as a potential successor to May. Well – why not. Why
not vote for a hay stack for that matter?
Chris Grayling the unbelievably below par Secretary
of State for Transport and Karen Bradley the idiot Secretary of State for Northern Ireland – who knows nothing about – well – Ireland, are like
diversionary plants to show us that however useless those 'doing' Brexit may appear – there are worse people. Much worse. Just cast your mind
back to the snivelling Gavin Williamson – spider boy – our gormless Secretary
of State for Defence who – after the Russian poisonings proclaimed that Russia
should “shut up and go away”. Problem solved.
And yes – one could argue that their destruction of
Britain – in terms of credibility and in fact - was not intentional. Being an
ex-lawyer – I am well aware of the importance of INTENT – marking as it does
the difference between Murder and Manslaughter.
HOWEVER...
There comes a point in criminal
law, and in the depths of personal injury law – and surely in common sense –
when blind incompetence to the point of willful ignorance becomes recklessness and opens up the charge of obvious, foreseeable
harmful consequences to such an extent that intent becomes irrelevant.
Why - in the US and UK - have all the turds floated to the top at this point in history and when are the publicly paid, most incompetent and in-cohesive johnnies and janes this country
has ever had the misfortune to call a ruling administration, going to get
theirs?
We’ve had ours and it’s making most of us sick…
AND – as I said in another letter to the press this
week (published in The Independent) – it’s not as if anyone is even debating actual Brexit anymore –
Listening, at the
weekend, to the various white noise that passes for debate about Brexit – in the run up to more ridiculous
Parliamentary votes on something or other to do with the Brexit mess - I had an
out of body experience and came to a very simple, obvious conclusion -
No one is even
fighting over ‘Brexit’ anymore – whatever that was.
It’s as if shady
street hawkers enticed people into a spangled glitzy looking restaurant with
promises of free roast beef, double pudding and singing waiters and somewhere
between the entrance and the table at the back – the heating was switched off,
the music stopped, the lights went out, the décor faded to a mottled grey and
now the customers are being persuaded to stay in the restaurant and fight over
whether to eat the dusty old dried flower arrangement – or not. And,
they are going at it hell for leather.
Meanwhile – normal
life is going on outside…