Pillaging to their hearts content

Subject: Pillaging to their hearts content

The latest revelation that Downing Street held a Christmas party last year whilst insisting we the commoner, under pressure of substantial fines were directed to stay at home regardless of the need to meet someone.

It was brought home to me by the distraught sobbing of a woman who had called in to LBC to describe her pain at not being able to see her dad in his last days. It was a year later and it’s still raw in her mind, as she described her disgust at the people in Downing Street who responsible for the ban on gatherings,  themselves were having a knees-up in their office.

One rule for us and one rule for them has always been the stigma we carry as ordinary people but Boris's government has brought the disparity up to date with cronyism thrust in our faces time and time again. From the appointment of companies, owned by friends getting the lucrative PPE contracts, even when they had shown no previous capability  in making protective medical clothing, to the dreadful down grading of frail older patients in hospital beds and moving them into poorly equipped old peoples homes to die. The recent Owen Paterson scandal revealing second jobs, often linked to ministerial decision making and the U turns on election promises like a high speed rail link to Yorkshire crucial promise in corrupting the historical voting patterns in the destitute towns of the north. His bumbling inane performance in front of a group of business leaders, having lost his notes he rambled on about the fortitude of Peppa Pig which for a comedy stand up was not bad but for a Prime Minister very bad indeed.

Of course he can do no wrong with an 80 seat majority in Parliament, each vote is a nod through no matter how contentious and shows a major flaw in this our 'Mother of Parliament'. The ‘First Past the Post’ election system system makes Parliament even more non representative and limits the opportunity to allow for a 'communal interest vote' rather than a 'special interest' one where a strong opposition can rein in the extremities of any party.  Busted by the 2019 election, an election screwed by Brexit, the dreadful results of which we are only just beginning to experience. The lies and promises in the election run up and manifesto are now forgotten since politicians, unlike the rest of us, are not held accountable for their actions. There’s no risk of inditement in law, no opprobrium, no moral or ethical scarring, the electorate have been softened up to accept anything  pummelled by false news and amplified on the internet platforms'.  If ever there was an intrigued against the people it’s this untrammelled abasement of truth, it’s like being locked away in a mental asylum with the inmates all screaming their own story.

Will Boris and his associates ever get their comeuppance or will, as happened, all the descent politicians retire leaving only the unscrupulous to pillage to their hearts content.