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"Thanks that means a lot from someone of your stature...They are scared for sure. It was all lies from 2015 and they now know it. Makes them look stupid for having bought it and the worst is yet to come."
The first words surprise and flatter me. What stature? Never mind, the word gives a warm glow so I will just enjoy it.
She writes, of course, of Brexit-supporting Brits now holding on to various favourable prisms through which to view Dominic Cummings's adventures. It's the media, it's Labour, it's Remainers, it's it's it's... And then the growing list of tory right wing Brexit supporting politicos and outlets also furious with the Moomin of Downing Street daunts them. At this point they achieve something quite remarkable, managing to double down at the same time as they refuse to think about what they're doubling down upon. It's thought, Jim, but not as we know it.
After all, if DC's a strange lying individual who doesn't give a damn about the people and breaks the rulesTM as he sees fit, and if his boss stands up for him doing that, then what does that say about their baby Brexit?
And that's before we consider the UK govt's responses to the pandemic.
No-one wants to admit they voted a complete incompetent into power, no-one wants to think such voting could have contributed to the highest death toll in Europe. It's part of a lazy way of thinking; all politicians are alike, all greedy and corrupt and stupid, so you just vote tribally or for your pocket and nothing really changes but they're all bastards anyway so what?
Well it transpires that there are measurable distances between capable and incapable statescraft. No, not all politicians are alike, as at least 50,000 deaths would seem to demonstrate with stark clarity.
I hope she's right,that they are scared, that they do know.
And then perhaps we can collectively learn something.
The first words surprise and flatter me. What stature? Never mind, the word gives a warm glow so I will just enjoy it.
She writes, of course, of Brexit-supporting Brits now holding on to various favourable prisms through which to view Dominic Cummings's adventures. It's the media, it's Labour, it's Remainers, it's it's it's... And then the growing list of tory right wing Brexit supporting politicos and outlets also furious with the Moomin of Downing Street daunts them. At this point they achieve something quite remarkable, managing to double down at the same time as they refuse to think about what they're doubling down upon. It's thought, Jim, but not as we know it.
After all, if DC's a strange lying individual who doesn't give a damn about the people and breaks the rulesTM as he sees fit, and if his boss stands up for him doing that, then what does that say about their baby Brexit?
And that's before we consider the UK govt's responses to the pandemic.
No-one wants to admit they voted a complete incompetent into power, no-one wants to think such voting could have contributed to the highest death toll in Europe. It's part of a lazy way of thinking; all politicians are alike, all greedy and corrupt and stupid, so you just vote tribally or for your pocket and nothing really changes but they're all bastards anyway so what?
Well it transpires that there are measurable distances between capable and incapable statescraft. No, not all politicians are alike, as at least 50,000 deaths would seem to demonstrate with stark clarity.
I hope she's right,that they are scared, that they do know.
And then perhaps we can collectively learn something.
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