Todays word from Susie Dent: CURFUGGLE A total mess or state of utter disarray!
I watched PMQ’s yesterday with Labours Deputy Leader Angela Raynor asking the questions, she did a good job. Even without any reference, I knew when the PM was lying, which during his answer he did at least 5 or 6 times culminating in denying he said something of which there is video evidence of him categorically stating! The speaker does not challenge him and nor, it seems, does anyone in Parliament. I know you are not supposed to accuse another MP of lying in the House of Commons but surely the Labour Party should be shouting it from the rooftops and continually pointing out every lie he utters, which is every time he opens his mouth! It is unbelievable that we have a Prime minister who blatantly and constantly denies what he has said in the past or just tells another bare faced lie in full view of the whole nation and he continually gets away with it! Yesterday he claimed that £140 per week was given to those less well off, he said it more than once in his replies, it is per month and that is just one example! We have MP’s and ministers who are suspended or resign because of their poor behaviour and yet Boris is never sanctioned and seems to get away with every investigation or inquiry? It is left to a litany of Twitter, Instagram and FB posts to hold him to account and as powerful as they can be they will never topple this megalomaniac maniac from power! We should collectively be ashamed that so many fell under the spell of this man’s rhetoric.
I know longer trust a single party or politician, sure there are some MP’s who are doing their best to act what they were elected to but far to many on both sides are happy to ride the gravy train or use their position for unbridled ambition or filling their pockets with extra cash. This is where our political system has brought us and even without the added pressure of an unforeseen (was it!) pandemic it is no longer fit for purpose and needs radical overhauling. We need a different way of voting, more young people and definitely more women in power (although there are some awful examples already there!) A cross party coalition may seem a pathetic compromise but it just might stop the rampant rush to the right that this Conservative party is aiming for.
I don’t claim to know the answer, I have been watching and writing about politics for a very long time and I’m buggered if I know the answer or am any the wiser than I ever have been but I am convinced if we continue to do the same things, we as always, will get the same yo yo results!
Perhaps we should not care anymore and just do our best to look after ourselves and those closest to us Perhaps we have reached a point in history when apathy is the real cause of our demise, I for one have no answers only questions!
Stay well
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