YOU really could not make it up in your wildest dreams!
Three PMs and five chancellors in three years. A cost-of-living crisis and the shredding of the economy by the Truss gang! The Covid inquiries with the cry of “it wisnae me, a big boy done it and ran awa”. Exorbitant energy prices and wholesale issuing of oil licences for the North Sea which are based on the lie that these will reduce costs for citizens and that the net zero target will not be affected. And the band played believe it if you like!
Then we have Rwanda (not forgetting the £240 million spent so far) and the furore about immigrants when at the same time legal migration dwarfs the number crossing the Channel.
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Mark my words, it is only a matter of time before the legislation underpinning the “sanitisation” of Rwanda as being factually a safe place is challenged in our Court of Session, as said legislation undermines the nobile officium of the High Court. This power of the court is used to mitigate a harsh and ill-thought-out law. Notwithstanding the interpretation of Westminster that they are more equal than Scotland in the equal and voluntary Union, they forget that Scottish courts and law are protected by the Treaty of Union. Get round that one!
PM Sunak recently addressed the Italian ultra-right-wing neo-fascist party and weaponised immigrants, whom he suggested are purposely sent to European countries to undermine their economies. He had better watch his back, as sooner or later some nutter will suggest that as the son of immigrants he should sling his hook.
To top it all we saw the Baroness Mone interview on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. That really took the biscuit, and Mone dropped MP Gove and others right in it! Mone confirmed she had lied for nigh on two years about her role in the making of £60 million profit from the misery of Covid. Profiteering at its worst! A government fast track for their acolytes to make loads of money!
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Time to get rid of the House of Lords with its gone-to-seed has-been politicians, freeloaders and wastes of space.
With the brief selection above, is it any wonder that the ratings for soaps are declining rapidly!
Thank goodness I live in Scotland, which, despite its government’s many flaws, stands head and shoulders above the midden of Westminster whilst operating on but a small proportion of the income generated from its resources and the labour of its people.
Peter Macari
Aberdeen
LADY Mone either didn’t read or didn’t understand the rules on declarations of interest by members of parliament, let alone the fact that by her confession she has undermined the very foundations of Westminster where members cannot call each other liars because members simply do not lie to the public.
Surely her complete denial of any connection with the company she had recommended should have caused some concern among those who knew the truth, especially those who had performed due diligence on this relatively new company.
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It’s not just Michael Gove. The revelations in the interview with Laura Kuenssberg cast a shadow on the integrity of numerous people in the Cabinet Office, Department of Health and Social Care and NHS that she claims knew of her involvement with PPE Medpro.
A thorough investigation is required to verify the facts regarding all of these fast-tracked contracts and restore public confidence in the way that public money is handled by this government.
John Jamieson
South Queensferry
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