Bounders and cads

+Isn’t it time we heard chants at American rallies of ‘Lock him up!’ As may be said—in this case with some justification—Trump’s pleading the Fifth in order not to incriminate himself is a big clue to his guilt. He also refused to hand over his tax records when entering the White House. He’s got a lot to hide, evidently. But to say that Trump is merely a common crook takes us nowhere—politics will save him, just as Johnson will walk away with a smile on his face. Truss says she would vote to stop the parliamentary inquiry into whether Johnson lied to the House over ‘Partygate.’ For some reason, these people remind me of the saying ‘the best way to rob a bank is to own one.’
 
+If Truss wins the Tory leadership, she’ll no doubt find a place for one of her more vocal backers, the economically retarded Iain Duncan Smith. The only person on the planet who thinks Universal Credit is a great system. On the radio the other day he revealed just how economically illiterate he really is, when whilst supporting Truss’s tax cutting, state shrinking agenda he claimed that government spending is not part of the economy. Quite what he meant by the ’economy’ wasn’t entirely clear. Did he mean that the NHS, the UK’s largest employer has no economic footprint, or contributes nothing to productivity (e.g. by getting people well enough to continue as wage earners)? Or did he mean that taxpayers' money spent on the products of BAE Systems wasn’t of any use (and most of it, ultimately, isn’t)? Did he mean that crumbling infrastructure helps grow GDP? It is truly depressing that such ‘thinkers’ have influence in the so-called top flight of politics and even more so that they are allowed to regurgitate their specious claims unchallenged.