Politico reports this morning that overnight:
Boris Johnson has ordered a Cabinet Office inquiry into allegations by Conservative MP Nus Ghani that she was fired from her job as a minister because she is Muslim.
I find that sentence utterly surreal. If there is one thing that the Prime Minister has to do it is cabinet reshuffles. They are his or her sole responsibility. Of course, they will be advised by others, but the buck stops with them. So, if Nus Ghani was forced out of office for being a Muslim then it was Boris Johnson who did it. And it was, presumably, Boris Johnson who spoke to her. It was, after all, a very small reshuffle during which this took place. So, what is the Cabinet Office inquiry into?
Yet again we have Johnson pretending that he is not responsible for his own actions. He either was or was not responsible for sacking Nus Ghani for being a Muslim. And he other did or did not know what his chief whip told him about her. He either does, or does not recall it, and I rather suspect he does. What will the inquiry do but repeat his words, and those of Nus Ghani and the chief whip back to him?
There is no need for an inquiry in that case. There is a need for responsibility.
And there is a need for the Tories to come face to face with the party that they now are. The change sheet is long:
- Racism
- Corruption
- Human rights denying
- Election rigging
- Incompetence
- Democide
- Irresponsible
They will do, for starters.
In modern times has there ever been a more rotten government?
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Interesting comment on the political fetish for ‘enquiries’
https://davidallengreen.com/2022/01/the-political-addiction-of-hiding-behind-inquiries/
He is very good
They do seem to like an enquiry, especially when it can be used to switch the blame
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/23/suzanne-jeremy-heywood-lobbying-scandal-greensill-affair
Add criminal, and bombastic. The latest Foreign Office fake news bulletin on the “Ukraine puppet government” was a classic piece of bombastic nonsense, and an example of what I term Sovereignty Enhancement Surgery.
Rotten and Teflon-like to boot!
If only Labour under Corbyn had had such ‘unconcern’ about accusations of anti-Semitism.
That is indeed an observation! Of course, if he’d been unconcerned by it he would have been slaughtered for hypocrisy given that he is anti-racist.
Starmer, on the other hand, actually is like Johnson – he lied his way into the leadership having now reneged on all his pledges for socialist policies.
As Richard has pointed out frequently, voting reform really is the key to start change. Although trying to reform the Labour Party can go on simultaneously, only the shock of no longer being able to hide behind the vain hope of winning the FPTP system will actually force the one party / two names to have to fragment and aim to win on the basis of actual differentiated policies.
And reform of the voting system is beginning to ramp up support.