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Keep your windows closed, doors closed and children safe.
What’s going on, you ask? Will there be a hurricane? Not worse. It’s an old ball and chain on the warpath!
Old BC: None of you listen to Old Gray Balls. He is hopeless. I’m tired of them.
Old GB: Whose fate?
Old BC: Who do you think? Politicians of course!
Old GB: Okay. Which?
Old BC: Everyone! They are pretty much the same everywhere.
Old GB: Yes. But someone must have upset you today. Or have the costs of your daily shopping increased?
Old BC: If I didn’t shop, you’d have no clothes to wear and you’d have terrifying kids running around. So don’t be cute. Yours not to reason; yours but to sigh and buy!! Politicians come to voters pretending they care so much about us, but when they get elected, it’s all about them. Narcissists!
Old GB: Isn’t that a bit harsh?
Old BC: Hard? What are you drinking? Look at the current circus in England. Conservative MPs supported Boris despite scandal after scandal, including that he was the first British Prime Minister to be found guilty of breaking the law as long as their posts were secure. Once the party lost two by-elections in “safe” seats, they turned on him, using his relatively minor offense of lying about knowing a minister’s perverted behavior as a false drop that breaks the backs of false camels. What the freak? He only knew? Did THEY know? If not, why not?
Old GB: They’ve always been Boris enablers as he claimed stupidity or senility (he “forgot” or didn’t understand “party”), rather than admit guilt. So, falling on swords today, claiming protection of personal ‘integrity’, is just more narcissistic hypocrisy. Or, as Labor Party leader Keir Starmer joked, “This is the first case of sinking ships fleeing the rat!”
Old BC: Look at how these it’s-all-about-me charlatans behaved. One by one, they resign and say they can’t work with Boris. When he announces his resignation as party leader, but remains prime minister until the conservatives elect a new party leader, they trip over their egos and beg their jobs back.
Old GB: WHAT??
Old BC: Did I Stutter? Sara Britcliffe, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Education Department, resigned on Wednesday. On Thursday she will be on BBC TV saying she will return, so reportedly “the government will continue”. But on Wednesday, she said the government cannot continue under Boris. Nadhim Zahawi, now Boris’ new finance minister to replace the resigned Rishi Sunak, is even worse. Zahawi, a frontrunner to replace Boris, was one of the first to advise Boris to step down. Nevertheless, he seizes an opportunity for a high-profile position in Boris’ new cabinet to reinforce his political ambitions. Bah!
Old GB: Holy Machinations, Batman! Boris’s siege mentality, including Michael Gove’s shameful resignation late at night, was eerily reminiscent of something he wrote in the Telegraph four days after the 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament. Then BoJo denounced Gordon Brown for clinging to power:
“It’s all incredible. As I write these words, Gordon Brown is still sitting in Downing Street. He’s like an illegal settler in the Sinai desert, tying himself to the radiator or David Brent chasing The Office in that excruciating episode in which he refuses to acknowledge that he has been fired. Isn’t there someone, the Queen’s Private Secretary, the nice police officer at the door of No. 10, whose job it is to tell him that the game is over?”
Old BC: Jamaican MPs are no better. Stop, watch and listen to the parliamentary red tape over proposed changes to the Integrity Act. MEPs complained about being singled out because the Commission wanted additional scrutiny of MEPs. The cry of poor, downtrodden MPs was: Why us? What about the rest of the public service? Our influence is limited.
Old GB: DWL. Limited?
Old BC: NOW I’m cooking. MEPs, especially those who are also ministers, treat civil servants as accomplices. Now they want to hide behind the thin veil of public service responsibility? If MPs didn’t insist on being ‘consulted’ when awarding government contracts or distributing ‘aid packages’, rather than staying in their jobs as parliamentary representatives, they might have a point. The sad fact is that the ubiquitous apathy of voters highlights the mistrust of voters. Attempts to avoid scrutiny, despite a history of scandal after scandal, only increase mistrust. It doesn’t look good. What do they have to hide?
I am always on the last word.
Old GB: Yes dear.
Peace and love.
Gordon Robinson is a lawyer. Email feedback to [email protected].