Scotland’s SNP is searching for a new leader. Nicola Sturgeon – who in this mess of politics deserves praise for her stoicism - has often been cast as ‘just like the rest’. The press have contorted themselves to draw false equivalence between her and some of the most disastrous leaders the UK has ever seen. I’ve written on this subject before and won’t repeat all but a good example was when then PM Johnson was partying while people died and much was made of Nicola Sturgeon standing up in a public place when had sheen been seated she would have been within covid rules. So a distance (and she is a physically diminutive figure) of a couple of feet. Meanwhile considerable numbers of the Conservative administration seem to have strayed from the law, from decency from morality and from humanity a very long way over a great period of time.
But then corrosive false equivalence in our media is
something I’ve also banged on about on this blog. Sturgeon stepped down with dignity. The Conservative conveyor belt of disastrous leaders grinds on.
If proof were needed – and it isn’t – that Johnson
is Britain’s down market dull Trump then his unerring instinct for wrecking and
wrecking and wrecking would be that evidence.
I’ve nothing but contempt for bronze medallist PM
Sunak and his weak as water nonentityness (!) however – in case we forget –
there is the country to consider while the years long infighting of our atrocious
Tory leaders continues unabated – through disaster, crisis and increasing
economic woes.
The machinations of this Tory government become more
like interactions of delinquent brats in a playground where the bullies rule
because the teachers are AWOL and the little kids are divided, distracted,
distraught and too desperate to think straight.
The latest nonsense is Johnson’s intervention associated
to the Northern Ireland Protocol. It doesn’t really matter if we understand the
intricacies of NIP because I bet my last penny that he doesn’t understand the
detail either. Boris de-Brexit Johnson doesn’t care and he has no more interest
in the protocol than he had in the detail of Brexit. The lies on the side of
the red bus were about disruption and promoting himself – so was the nonsense
about an ‘oven ready Brexit deal’ and so is this.
To say that Johnson has form when it comes to creating
chaos, deceiving and overweening self-interest is to say fish swim, a bird
flies and this big fat wrecking ball lies.
And somehow – somehow – we all – the whole country –
all of the UK - those in England and Wales who voted for his Brexit mess and
those in Scotland and Ireland who did not, are being dragged behind the
monstrous circus of creeps, cretins, corrupt cronies that complete the current
crass clowns in the UK Conservative government.
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