Honestly, don’t I have enough to worry about? Jesus, my shoulder’s for shit, we’re in month 14 of the worst thing ever to become a proper ‘thing’, we’ve just averted the worst crisis that football has ever faced, Joey broke our lovingly constructed kit car and the lawn needs mowing. I mean, really! So I barely have time to consider the actions of Boris and his predecessor-but-one and the whole ‘lobby-gate’ issue, currently surrounding the Tory party with allegations of ‘sleaze’. Particularly when the Labour Party, currently adopting squatter status in ‘the moral high ground’ and entering ‘holier than thou’ mode, have their own history of corruption which go back to doping inquiries in coal mine canaries (Scargill et al, 1983) right up to the esteemed (ex) mayor of Liverpool.

I met David Cameron once. We were at a Chanukah party at 10 Downing Street. And in the 14 seconds we spoke I can attest that he didn’t offer me any bribes, back-handers, didn’t try to rob me or propose acting for my company in governmental matters or contracts. However… he is no longer the PM and has thrown his lot in with Greensill, a financial institution who aren’t doing very well at the moment. In the same way that ‘Prince Philip is not doing very well at the moment’. So he did what he could to help them. For which they probably pay him £350k a year for 2.3 hours a month. Not because he’s a whizz at finance; not because he brings something special to the board, not because he has any idea of what the company even does. But because he has Rishi Sunak on speed dial. Because he can get a call through to the governor of the Bank of England and you couldn’t.

So that’s exactly what he did. ‘Phone a friend’. He’s allowed to do that. On anyone’s behalf he likes, even financial institutions mired with billions of unpayable debt to try and get a government grant. But he needs to do it openly. I’m gonna say it…

“TRANS-PAR-ENT-LEEEEE”!!!!

Otherwise he’s just another Eton old boy selling his ability to get in the back door to the highest bidder.

A bit like Boris. Except he IS the prime minister so ‘transparency’ is not just required but FUCKING ESSENTIAL. And with friends like Dominic Cummings, Boris needs to ‘keep his enemies closer’. Dominic sent a bunch of Boris’s texts to newspapers in which the PM promised to ‘get sorted’ some special tax considerations for Dyson employees. In return for ventilators. At the height of the pandemic when ventilators were running short. And as James Dyson spent 20 million pounds of his own money on the ventilators, never presenting the government with a bill and never actually getting the contract, as the moment (thankfully) passed, some could say that was actually good business by the PM who’d suffered months of being accused of ‘acting too late’. He acted early, independently, and is now suffering for it.

And I know Boris was busy back in last April/May, trying desperately to, firstly, stay alive, and secondly, having a rather full inbox most of the time, but he should have just alerted someone to what he was doing.

Ok, that’s lobbying done. But now the shit has really hit the fan. Though I don’t think Dominic Cummings is a Boris ‘fan’ at all. Quite the opposite. He is the ‘woman scorned’ (equality means all terms are no ‘un-gendered’) and hell really has no fury like a former aide with a phone full of incriminating shit sufficient to send Boris to jail.

The plot thickens…

Happy Saturday

A xxxx