Is corruption and incompetence the new normal?

No, not same circus, and very very different clowns.

Anyone who compares Keir Starmer to Boris Johnson really has not got a clue.

'Same circus , different clowns'

'All politicians lie'

'They're only in it for what they can make out of it'

These trite little 'sayings', and many similar ones, that imply that there is absolutely no difference between politicians of any colour and that they're all on the make, so not worth bothering with, are so lazy, ignorant and unthinking that they should be banned in discussion of politics.

"They are all the same" is a quote from the right wing gutter press when their heroes have been exposed as villains and they are forced to try to defend the indefensible.

I think it’s a case of “Emperor’s new clothes“ here, the people that support Johnson, Cummings and all his cronies who are getting taxpayers handouts like Dido whatnot, are loathe to believe that their hero is a lazy charlatan who is undermining democracy, so they’ll chant whatever the latest infantile three word slogan is, and close their eyes to the reality of the corruption.

Dido whatnot may be getting taxpayers' money in spite of being totally ignorant about public health, but what about the "little people" who are not in that favoured group, who are perhaps struggling, and yet still buy the Daily Express (or Mail or Sun) and allow these right-wing rags to tell them what to think and how to vote?

The Vote Leave government doesn't give a toss for these "little people" as long as they do as they are told - vote for brexit, vote conservative, never bother to think what damage that will do.

Thank you "little people" you got Johnson and Cummings into a position where they can do what they damn well want. They don't give a toss about you as long as you keep reading the Daily Express/Mail/ Sun and take instructions.

Pestfix, a pest control company situated in Littlehampton run by England brothers, whose assets amounted to only £18k, took £100m of taxpayer’s funds, now using taxpayer’s money to pay lawyers to try and prevent the taxpayer from finding out where their funds actually went?

Corruption by the company

Incompetence by the government

The Queen is not at Balmoral because of COVID-19. She is always on holiday at Balmoral At this time of year.

I think (hope) that this will all unravel eventually but it will be too late. The corrupt will have made their pile and disappeared into the sunset. And the government doesn't care. With its large majority they know that they can get away with the corruption and are just laughing at us, especially those of us who are complaining.

I hope that Led By Donkeys will be around at the next election, with plenty of money so that they can put posters, etc etc up in every constituency where the sitting MPs have lied and benefited in some way or other from present events.

The @GoodLawProject has been challenging Government's £15bn supermarket sweep approach to PPE procurement though the courts. We have issued judicial review proceedings into three particularly odd looking deals involving a pest controller, a wholesale confectioner and Ayanda. /7

Jo Maugham QC twitter Thread on Tread Reader

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Suppose this is already known

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The Government should be challenged over every penny .Thank goodness for those doing it.

Here's a UK citizen who's decided to change his approach to life. If you can't beat them, join them ... Expressed in a series of tweets...

There comes a time when corruption is so rife there is no point not being bent yourself. You don’t want to pay CGT on your buy to let properties? Transfer title into one or more offshore companies. Everybody is doing it after all, even Tory MPs & their cronies. And since it ..

Level 2:
.. turns out the peasants do not revolt when you beggar them further but, on the contrary, read right wing rags & vote Tory, satisfied with a diet of nationalism, why bother improving their lives? There are vast sums to be made even from the poor, in gambling, money lending ..

Level 3:
.. & alcohol. And selling off state assets acquired & built up over decades is another huge opportunity. Ask any Russian oligarch. Speaking of whom, who are your friends going to be? Your indigent countrymen or the obscenely rich? It’s a no-brainer. You don’t get ..

Level 4:
.. into the royal enclosure at Ascot by volunteering at the local food bank. You can put your rich buddies in the House of Lords with barely a squeak of protest. Quite how you neuter institutions which exist to maintain standards in public & commercial life I’m not sure, but ..
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Level 5:
.. we seem to have managed it. Maybe it’s the revolving door or lack of resources or even the prospect of honours (or all three). You can bungle an anti-terror operation so badly that you kill an innocent man, amid the whoops & cheering of a chaotic control room, ..
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Level 6:

.. & still become a dame. The IOPC can spend the best part of a year conducting a ‘scoping’ exercise before washing its hands of a clear case of corruption & cronyism. The Serious Fraud Office has never won a case (I exaggerate, but only a bit) so why worry? And at the ..
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Level 7:
.. top, a liar who has so subverted public life that his lies tumble one upon an another at such a rate no one can keep up. He has performed the valuable public service of exposing to all but the most myopic the intellectual corruption & cowardice of the BBC, which ..

•Level 8:
.. facilitated his election & refuses to hold him to account for 70,000 deaths, with tens of thousands to follow. So why bother? Let’s all inhale the miasma of greed & craziness as the insiders shovel their tax free loot offshore. If you can’t beat them, join them.

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It is a conundrum isn’t it?

Say for example you become aware of someone committing fraud or fiddling their taxes or receiving stollen goods.

All tiny compared to what we see going on.

Perhaps we should all shrug and let them get on with it.