As I write, Partygate etc still rumbles on to decide whether or not all the FACTS we know that PROVE the big oaf was lying, actually prove that he was lying. Which we know he was, cos we were following the rules, which were really clear. We all understood them. Cos we are not stupid, or in his case, privileged.
The Sue Gray report that found Johnson was a lying scumbag wasn’t enough, nor was every other enquiry. So there’s another next week for us to pay for.
Next Wednesday afternoon there will be a televised stage show where he and a panel of seven MP’s will act out a farce that will still allow him to carry on regardless. The current PM has said that if they do find him guilty of lying, which they won’t, then it can go to a free vote of all Tory MP’s. If this happens, which it won’t, then if he is found guilty by the party, which he won’t, then he could face a By Election. Which he won’t.
None of this is likely to happen of course. Because he is a higher being than you and I, so let’s just accept that shall we? Why should he follow the rules that we did, and tell the truth?
What really upsets me other than all of the above, done with utter contempt for you and I, is the money. The sheer, eye-watering amount of money wasted on every single aspect of protecting him. Money that could have been spent on something good. Like going towards that £350million a week that the NHS get now?
Whatever one’s political persuasion, and this is NOT the subject of this monologue, we now seem to be back to a governmental landscape that focuses on politics and government. Whether it’s being done well or not, is NOT my point here. I have NEVER commented at length about the politics of things going on, despite trolls questioning what I post on MY Facebook page.
My main issue, as I’m sure is yours (apart from the occasional nobhead troll) is the cost of focussing on personalities and their wrongdoings, as opposed to getting on with the business of governing, leading, you know, that kind of stuff. The stuff we pay then for.
The monetary cost to you and me, for it is us who have to pay for it, will now be hundreds of thousands, if not (as I suspect) millions. I haven’t had the time or inclination to tot up the costs, but the one thing we can all be sure of is that the subject of all this will not have to dig into his £800,000 loan sorted by the boss of the BBC (prior to Johnson giving him the job). You and I have and will, pay for it all. How is this ok?
All this when we have a challenging financial outlook in our own country, and all this when 23 million people in North Africa are currently facing starvation. How is this ok?
On top of the financial responsibility passed on to you and me, is the cost of the distraction from running the country, the sheer volume of man hours (I think that’s still ok to use) by public servants NOT focussing on something useful, and the cost of Britain being embarrassed on the world stage.
So again I ask, at what cost?