Bevan had the right words for them
Jan. 12th, 2022 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nineveh_ukThe Prime Minister claims to have attended a garden party with alcohol and party snacks for 25 minutes without having a clue that it was anything other than normal workplace activity. Well, it certainly gives an insight into what he considers to be 'work'. Hmm, workshy or a flaming liar? I'll go for both. Note, this is only the Tories. Other political parties have individuals who have made mistakes or behaved illegally during Covid, and Margaret Ferrier is being prosecuted, but this systematic law breaking belongs only to the Conservatives. They are not 'all the same': the Alliance Party, DUP, Greens, Labour, LibDems, Plaid Cymru, SDNP, SNP, Sinn Fein, none of them have had successive incidents of this kind of law-breaking not just condoned but organised and attended by the leadership, and then lied about in parliament. This is all the Conservatives. Aided and abetted by the Metropllitan Police, of course, whose idea of 'security'is apparently to have no idea whatsoever that significant illegal activity is going on on premises that they are presumably meant to be secure. And then when it becomes apparent, not to investigate as a matter of policy.
Looking at my diary for 20 May 2020 I see that I was in peak denial about not recovering from Covid as I should be despite the fact I wasn't able to do more than 4 hours work in the day or start before 10, and reporting being able to write in my diary without pain as a triumph. Um. Possibly if I'd been able to spend any time legally with someone in the preceding two months they might have told be otherwise, but of course I wasn't. If only I'd thought to hold a work meeting! A feeling that must be infinitely stronger among those who didn't hold a wake, a hospital visit, a home visit for a dying relative or friend. Which is why the idea that this can be got over on a technicality is a delusion, because the experiences of millions of people around the country are not a technicality and this isn't about coming up with a brilliant wheeze to get one over on the headmaster.
Mind you, there is one upside for the government, which is that chuck in Prince Andrew as well and it's a great day for an high court judgment that the 'fast track' PPE procurement process by which ministers bunged contracts to their friends was not lawful.
Looking at my diary for 20 May 2020 I see that I was in peak denial about not recovering from Covid as I should be despite the fact I wasn't able to do more than 4 hours work in the day or start before 10, and reporting being able to write in my diary without pain as a triumph. Um. Possibly if I'd been able to spend any time legally with someone in the preceding two months they might have told be otherwise, but of course I wasn't. If only I'd thought to hold a work meeting! A feeling that must be infinitely stronger among those who didn't hold a wake, a hospital visit, a home visit for a dying relative or friend. Which is why the idea that this can be got over on a technicality is a delusion, because the experiences of millions of people around the country are not a technicality and this isn't about coming up with a brilliant wheeze to get one over on the headmaster.
Mind you, there is one upside for the government, which is that chuck in Prince Andrew as well and it's a great day for an high court judgment that the 'fast track' PPE procurement process by which ministers bunged contracts to their friends was not lawful.
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Date: 2022-01-14 07:57 am (UTC)