This is government by the worst of our citizens
I REMEMBER some years ago being told that the party in power at the time had decided to do away with privilege and the old school tie and we would now live in a meritocracy, where advancement was dependant upon ability and not which school one attended or who one’s father was.
Judging by our PM’s attempts to force Chris Grayling onto the National Security Committee and Liam Fox onto the WTO that idea seems to have fallen by the wayside. I mean Grayling, the former Transport minister, famously awarded a Brexit contract of £20m or so to a shipping company that didn’t actually have any ships and had put their finance application together using “cut and stick’’ from another firm’s advertising!
Don’t forget that Fox was sacked by Bojo for not being good enough when he replaced Teresa May. Not good enough for the Tories but good enough for the World Trade Organisation!
Mmmm...
So it seems we now live in a wallyocracy or even more tragic a kakistocracy.
The first of these is self evident especially when one witnesses the antics of our PM, Bojo the clown. The latter comes from the Greek, of course, and means government by the worst of citizens!
I wonder what happened to the idea of ability deciding who was in charge.
Covid burying bad news on licence fee
GREAT idea (TV Licences: Lets Be The Awkward Squad by Edward Mitchell, Feedback,
July 22) insofar as making the collection of BBC licence fee for over 75s as difficult as possible.
Indeed at the last National Pensioners Convention in Blackpool last year it was being mooted that all over 75s should refuse to pay the licence fee. Some laughed and said the Government would have difficulty carting all the over 75s off to gaol! This of course was over a year ago and the fee is about to come into force so Gary Lineker and Co. can continue to draw outrageous salaries at the expense of the over 75s.
The BBC and the Government could even at this eleventh hour stop this unkind and unfair licence fee but they are using Covid to bury bad news! Their motto seems to be “They’ve had their day – let them pay.”