I’m sure that I’m not the only person despairing of political events in the past few months and years. I mean, I normally generally regard politicians as idiots, but usually I flatter them as being well-meaning idiots. There are always one or two exceptions, but overall…
At some point, an instant perhaps, which I have been unable to pinpoint precisely, the paradigm has shifted. They are still mainly all idiots, but at some point, it became impossible for me to regard them as well-meaning, beneficent at heart. Politicians today are more tribal, self-centred and venal than at any time that I can think of during my lifetime. There are always one or two exceptions, but overall…
The most likely candidate to be our next Prime Minister is a self-centred egoist, whose undoubted intelligence renders him barely articulate as his tongue trips over the unfiltered racing of a mind directed only on his self-aggrandisement. He operates in a moral vacuum in which his writings, opinions, promises, exhortations and enjoinders constantly shift direction and target, promising all things to all people regardless of compatibility. It is my fervent hope that the only record he sets as Prime Minister, is for shortness of tenure.
When your most important ally is also the Superpower, it behoves a state to make allowances for, and accommodate as best it can, the leader of that nation. But there is a difference between circumspection and outright obsequiousness. You don’t undermine your own people in an attempt to curry favour. You certainly don’t throw them under a bus.
Considering the contents leaked ambassadorial emails a few days ago, and given the temperament of the President of the superpower, the ambassador to Washington was probably fatally exposed anyway, ands I see from today’s reports that he recognises that and has resigned. I think, in the circumstances, that it’s all he could do, given the undignified rants directed his way. Nonetheless, whilst he was given support from the current incumbent of Number 10, her likely successor, the toady that he is failed by any measure to act in anything like an appropriate manner, preferring instead to roll over and have his proverbial tummy tickled.
At a time the country needs some kind of leadership, in which the best interests of the country are regarded as paramount, we have instead, wandered into a position whereby factional infighting has walked us to a cliff-edge where we are backing away from our closest trading partners, whilst at the same time alienating the superpower.
Our representative in Washington, sadly, has to be replaced. He can hardly do his job if the administration won’t talk to him or his staff, but he should be afforded the protection of his own government and we should have a government in waiting that wears its kid gloves over a firm grip, rather than a nebulous assortment of jelly-handed lickspittles led by a monomaniac Uriah Heep with delusions of Churchillian grandeur.
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