+I think there’s too much going on in the world today for me to find time to read the report of the inquiry into child abuse in the Church of England. Top lining the news tonight, it has garnered the usual wringing hands response from the C of E, but there’ll be no resignations, no accountability at the top. It rather begs the question of where is the top in the C of E? Surely that’s somewhere in the divine stratosphere, where everything comes down to God’s will. I suppose it does. I wonder how many child abusing clerics justified their actions to themselves with a reference to Abraham’s promise to God to fulfil His command to slaughter his son Isaac? The C of E rather answers the age old question about whether you need the divine to lead a moral life.
+It’s rare that I feel inclined to support Boris Johnson but his pledge to massively boost wind power should be supported. I know he’s probably over-promising again, and maybe doesn’t even expect it to happen, but he has stirred up some of his antediluvian backbenchers to protest. Not just them. Here’s Labour’s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner (according to the Daily Mail) ‘Labour also suggested the PM should be focusing on the pandemic, with deputy leader Angela Rayner saying Mr Johnson should 'set out how he will get a grip and tackle the crisis at hand'. Open letter to Angela: Dear Angela, The climate crisis is a thousand times worse than Covid-19. You get a grip. Yours etc., CC.
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All over the world people are praying for Donald Trump’s recovery from Covid-19. It must be working, since he has tweeted that the experimental treatments he’s been getting are ‘miracles from God.’ He must be in direct contact with the Divine. Perhaps the Chinese should watch out. The Divine Being must now have them in His sights for trying to poison the five times Nobel Peace Prize winner. Nominee, whatever. But was it really the Chinese? I thought all poisonings now had to be blamed on Vlad the Inhaler. Surely what we are witnessing is yet another example of Russian interference in Great Western Democracy? The biggest prayers for Trump’s recovery will be coming from Kim Jong-Un, Narendi Modi, Jair Bolsanaro, Boris Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rodrigo Duterte, tossers all (Johnson doesn’t look out of place in that crowd it has to be said, just more buffoonish). At least we could harbour a small hope that sufficient Republican Senators get Covid that they will be suitably incapacitated during any votes to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. But for now, let's just kneel and pray, and let nature take its course.
The scumbags at the Scum were clearly mightily pleased with yesterday’s frontpage story of Jeremy Corbyn’s breach of the ‘rule of six’ banning more than six people meeting indoors, with a picture of nine people sat around a dinner table enjoying a ‘posh’ dinner. One wonders who amongst these friends shared the photo. Salivating over its exclusive, the Scum contacted a couple of Tory MPs to bear witness, and share their profound disgust at Corbyn’s behaviour. One of these was Richard Holden, MP for North West Durham, who along with his Durham colleagues was forced to make a statement back in May on the behaviour of Dominic Cummings. It has to be said that Holden and Co. weren’t too impressed by Cummings’ ‘irresponsible’ behaviour but most of their statement (online at https://www.richardholden.org.uk/news/statement-county-durham-mps-dominic-cummings) sought to minimise that behaviour by largely dwelling on the government’s phenomenal success in tackling Covid-19. So perhaps there wasn’t the complete scent of hypocrisy one might have expected when Holden told the Scum ‘The champagne socialists of the London-centric Labour Party consider themselves above the rules that the rest of us must live by.’ The same perhaps could not be said for his fellow Scum quotee, David Morris, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale. Morris is a proven rules breaker, as a House of Commons report from last October
( https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cmselect/cmstandards/771/77103.htm) makes clear, dealing with his breach of rules relating to declaring his financial interests. After a complaint was made against him Morris eventually was forced to apologise to the House, but only after he had impugned the integrity of the Commissioner for Standards, as the report says ‘The Commissioner acknowledged that Mr Morris had “recently been through a difficult and testing period, and that stress can affect an individual’s usual behaviour”, that she understood him to be “deeply apologetic and remorseful for the tone adopted in your earlier correspondence”, and that she was “happy to accept [his] mitigation and apology for the tone of [his] previous correspondence, and […] that no disrespect had been intended to me or my office’. So Morris had an excuse and a context for his behaviour! This didn’t make him think twice before telling the Scum ‘Millions of Brits are quietly sticking to the rules to defeat this horrific virus while Jeremy Corbyn is swanning around at a posh dinner party. People have had to delay weddings, been stopped from going to funerals, and friends and families have been torn apart by these tough restrictions. It is beyond belief that an MP – and someone who claims to stand up for the common man – has behaved this way.’ It must be a matter of concern that at this ‘posh’ dinner party, and as the Scum gleefully reported, our Jeremy was wearing a ‘checked shirt.’ Just how posh is that? |
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