YOU’RE GAVIN A LAUGH
PATRIOTISM is the last refuge of a scoundrel, observed celebrated 18th Century writer Samuel Johnson, and Gavin Wi l liamson is certainly a political rogue.
By pretending that first use of a Belgian-manufactured vaccine developed for a US company in Germany by two scientists of Turkish heritage somehow made Britain a superior nation, the Education Secretary failed rational examination.
Matt Hancock, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Williamson, previously sacked as Defence Secretary for giving away national secrets, cynically wrapped themselves in the Union flag to distract from the fact that we are among the worst in Europe and the world for lives and livelihoods lost to Covid.
We’d be a much better nation without jingoistic Tory nincompoops physically ruining this country while beating their chests and falsely claiming global supremacy.
Chumocracy ministers made a meal of serving Scotch eggs in England’s pubs and prompted a mate to ask who in the Cabinet has a partner, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, friend, neighbour, business partner or shares in a factory producing the savoury snacks. I understand where my pal is coming from after all the dodgy coronyvirus contracts. Michael Gove was left with egg on his face as he scrambled the virus message. He really is useless.
ETON’S IN A RIGHT MESS
ETON, that £42,000-a-year bastion of privilege, would get plunged into special measures by Ofsted inspectors if it were a state comprehensive.
Masters, pupils and old boys are fighting over its future but the quality of education there is in doubt when it churns out narrow-minded duds such as Boris Johnson and David Cameron.