Boris Johnson’s Conservatives: A Law Unto Themselves

Another Sunday has arrived. Are you settling down for Marr? Don’t bother. It’s a Tory love-in today. One of my local MPs, the utterly useless Robert Buckland is on the show, as is Rachel ‘wrong again’ Reeves. 

What a shame the Labour Party couldn’t find anyone to go on the show. 

Anyway, enough of the establishment update, we need to talk about the state we currently find ourselves in.

It’s hard not to notice our global stock dropping quicker than Bill Clinton’s underpants, and there’s a good reason for this. 

Let’s do some hypotheticals for a moment. 

If you walk into your nearest Tesco Express this morning, pick up a joint of beef/nut roast, and walk out of the shop without paying for it, you have broken the law. You have committed an offence. When the security guard pulls you to one side, how far do you think you’ll get when you tell them that you only stole the item in a “very limited and specific way”? 

Let’s say you’re on your way to work, you’re running 10 minutes late, so you need to get a move on. The roads are quiet, so you put your foot down. Suddenly, the blue flashing lights appear in your wing mirror. The police officer asks you to get out of the car, and you say to the officer, “it’s a fair cop guv, but I was only doing 65mph in a 30 zone in a “very specific and limited way”. 

The security guard would think you’re taking the piss, and the police officer would breathalyse you. 

No ifs, no buts, if the law has been broken, regardless of who you are, or who you represent, you should be treated no different to the shoplifter, and no different to the speeder. 

I don’t think this is particularly controversial. 

So why on earth should the British government get away with breaking the law? Shouldn’t they be leading by example? 

How much further down the rabbit hole do we need to go before people realise Boris Johnson offers them no more than Malice in Blunderland?

This blatant law-breaking doesn’t come as a shock to most of us. This tsunami of inadequacy and immorality are the most corrupt government in living memory. They’re not my government. I absolutely detest their existence. 

It is nearly a year to the day the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that parliament should be prorogued for five weeks was unlawful. Not in a very specific and limited way. Johnson blagged Liz. 

It was unlawful. 

And you wonder why Johnson and Cummings want to dismantle the Supreme Court? They fear accountability and scrutiny more than anything else.

This is a government that draws up its very own list of global human rights abusers, and then quite literally allows the sale of weapons to numerous oppressive regimes, on their own list, so they can go and commit atrocities against innocent humans. Sales of arms to repressive regimes increased by 300% in 2019. In fact, in 2019 the UK sold £1.3 billion worth of weapons to 26 of the 48 countries that are classed as “not free” by Freedom House, the US government-funded pro-democracy institution. This is disgusting. 

I can assure you, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour fought against this tooth and nail, despite the party machinery thinking differently. Keir Starmer’s Labour are nowhere to be seen. Again, these sales aren’t very specific and limited, they are part of a multi-billion pound industry that shamefully puts Britain up near the top of the arms-exporting table of disgrace. 

Britain used to be global leaders in slave trading and invading other people’s countries, these days we just like to supply the tools for others to carry on our past work. Ask the children of Gaza what they think of us. Ask the Yemeni leader what he thinks of Britain. He quite publicly accused Britain of committing war crimes. How about Saudi Arabia? They who kill journalists and behead political activists? You should see how much they spend with us, it’s frightening.

Wherever you see war, destitution, and death, dig deep enough and you’ll usually find Britain is involved in one way or another. After all, if we didn’t support these war criminal despots, our arms trade would collapse, because there wouldn’t be any need for our fighter planes, or our vast selection of bombs. 

Is this criminal enough for you? It certainly is for me. 

Our capital city of London is said to be the money launderers destination of choice. And why is this? Because this government is just as bent themselves. While they may offer tough talk from time to time, the reality remains, Britain is blatantly corrupt - be in no doubt.

Look at the contracts they’ve been handing out over the last few months. Can it be any more obvious? They are giving massive multi-million pound contracts for supplies, such as PPE, to companies that have no experience in the supply chain, or companies with various links to the Conservative Party, and this is all being done without any tendering process, right under your noses, in the name of Covid-19. This hasn’t been very specific, and it’s certainly not been limited. It has been widespread corruption on an unprecedented scale. 

We found out this week, through a leaked document, that the government plan to spend £100 billion of your money on Operation Moonshot - a plan to be able to carry out 10 million tests, every single day, from early 2021. 

Within hours we find out that Tory favourite companies, such as Serco and G4S, who recently claimed £10 million of government support, despite making profits of £187 million last year, stand to make an absolute fortune from Operation Moonshot. One academic described it as “Waste and corruption on a cosmic scale”. The privateers are rubbing their hands with glee. While most of us will be lucky to have some sort of a decent Christmas, these public purse pilfering horrors think all of their Christmases have come at once. 

Is this criminal enough for you? It certainly is for me. 

And we mustn’t forget, the current Prime Minister was recorded discussing having a journalist beaten up. Johnson is a thug, a philanderer, a racist, a homophobe, a liar, and a fucking god awful human being.

This government caused the deaths of tens of thousands of our loved ones. Rather than close our borders and our schools, Johnson told you to sing happy birthday, twice. Wasn’t that a red flag for you? Johnson’s inability to put Britain into a state of lockdown at the earliest opportunity, was the difference between life and death. 

But let’s not forget, Dido’s Cheltenham festival needed to go ahead. 

Older people, with Covid-19, were sent into understaffed and ill-equipped care homes, untested, to die. Thousands of them. Seriously, it’s one of the biggest scandals of 2020, and you’ve got plenty to choose from.

Is this criminal enough for you? It certainly is for me. 

So don’t find yourselves shocked by Boris Johnson’s latest attempt to disregard the jaws that you and I must follow. He even had the cheek to tell us all to obey his latest rule of six law, while the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland stood at the Commons despatch box, openly admitting his criminally negligent and blatantly corrupt cabal will be breaking the law, again. 

The condemnation has come in from everywhere. Even the Labour Party went as far as politely disagreeing. People from around the world have voiced their shock at what we have become. Intolerant, aggressive, untrustworthy, calamitous, corrupted, this is absolutely humiliating for a majority of us, because we’re not like this. We are better than this. 

So that’s your government. In my opinion, the most corrupt government in living memory, headed by a charlatan, funded by Russian oligarchs, in the interests of the few, while the many will be left to pay the bill for their decade of recklessness on an unimaginable scale. 

Corruption is another form of tyranny, a never-ending greed. This government is out of control. It is so bloated and infested with deceit, cronyism, and corruption and abuse of power.

And this isn’t in a very specific and limited way. It’s blatant, prolific, and it must be opposed by every single one of us, wherever we stand on the political spectrum. 

And do you know what, I managed to write this entire rant without mentioning “Brexit”. Until then 🤦🏼‍♀️ 

Have a great Sunday, keep yourselves safe please x 

Rachael

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