I am beginning to wonder if I am living in an adjacent universe where the concept of acknowledged responsibility has faded into the swirling ether of time.
I am fairly sure, in the not too distant past, that public servants, especially senior ones, were obliged to ‘step down to spend more time with their family’ when they had been caught out.
And, I know that, in the explosive expositions after Weinstein there were a goodly number named and shamed, although no prosecutions as yet I notice.
But, that was a bright spark in the midst of the darkest period of non-acceptance of guilt for many a year.
Where shall we start?
David Davis, the leading figure for us in the Brexit negotiations. He stated last year that he had instigated a large number – 47 I think – detailed risk assessments to evaluate the potential ramifications of the Brexit process for every sector of industry, whether hard, soft or vaguely squidgy.
When, in passing, he later said that, actually that hadn’t been done, not even one, the more naive amongst us would have thought that an ‘untruth’ that large would be enough to see him forever dismissed to the backwaters of the back benches.
Not a chance.
Boris Johnson, the shining light of the ‘£350 million of ex-EU money a week to go to the NHS’ bus banner. He has just emerged from whichever cupboard his struggling minders have had him hidden in to reduce the embarrassment quotient, to state that ‘we’ – please note the collective – underestimated the cost of leaving the EU.
Was he at the very least shamed by his earlier pontificating bullshit?
Not a chance.
Donald Trump, the most ridiculous thing to come out of the US since ‘whole chicken in a tin’. The White House medical expert has stated that he is in good health and of sound mind. A stable genius. As a senior naval officer said so we are obliged to believe him. Aren’t we?
If that is the case, then why is Trump still there? Senility, insanity, crass stupidity were all totally acceptable excuses for his words, actions, and the actions of his thumbs. But sanity means only one thing – we are in very great danger. Because people chose him, not knowing whether he was with us, or the bright orange fairies.
Apart from possible impeachment, will he leave of his own accord?
Not a chance.
To say that I am a tad disappointed with this particular universe is an understatement.
If you want me, I will be trying the next one over.
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