There again, perhaps one should not be too hard on Dopey Mark. After all, many in the cabinet suffer from similar delusions. Not least Grand Saps, who was sent to the airwaves to say that the strikes were the fault of everyone but his own. When he found out who the transport secretary was, he would give him a piece of his mind. It was completely irresponsible for the Labor Party to allow the strikes to proceed. Shapps was at his worst – for comparison, Michael Gove has to take a bunch of Coca-Cola to be so awful – according to the Commons statement the day before, and he was just as bad today. Not just happy with himself, but completely happy with himself. Smuggy McSmugFace. And he still somehow believes that forcing the unions on days of planned strikes will be good for the Tories. That people will not tell themselves that it would be much better if employers – including the government – could reach a resolution before the unions called for action. So what we got was more of the same. It was not the job of the transport secretary to try to settle transport disputes. But just suppose he was, then he would be happy to get stuck if there was only one in a million chances to help. Too bad no one told him that the Network Rail had said that they had reached a breathing distance from an 11 o’clock settlement. Obviously, they would not have come so close if Grant had been involved. No situation can make it worse, etc. έχει Maybe he has more self-awareness than he seems. The transport secretary had more to say about changing the law so that agency workers could replace the striking railways at some point in the future. Although as always he did not seem to have fully thought about it. “This is what your train driver is talking about. This is my first time traveling from London to Manchester and I am only on the minimum wage. And no one else on the train or at the control center has any idea what they are doing. So be patient with us. We will do our best to get you close to your destination, but if we get lost or have an accident, do not get angry. Thank you for your patience.” Boris Johnson was also trying to make his message clear. At first he was adamant that public sector workers should show restraint on wages – just a few weeks ago he was in favor of a high-wage economy and had a fight with the Governor of the Bank of England because he opposed him – and after a while he was in favor of change of the law to allow huge bonuses for those working in the financial services industries. Let’s think about it. Public sector workers need to make an effective pay cut, but bankers are free to earn billions more. This should be the leveling agenda that will be formed. The convict hurried to confirm it. This is how foreign financial institutions could make the most of Brexit. And there I thought the whole point of Brexit was to benefit the United Kingdom. How stupid I am. To add to the confusion, Johnson went on to announce that from next year, seniors will receive an increase in their pension depending on inflation. That was a shocking thing. Thus, when the railway workers demanded a wage increase in line with inflation, the country was held as a ransom by “union barons”. But retirees were fine for a 11% pay rise. It is almost as if one part of the government has no idea what the other is doing. The Convict is simply shaping politics on the hoof. And the rest of the country has an abusive relationship with him. In the Commons, Liz Truss also struggled with reality during Foreign Office questions. No more than when Labor MP Hillary Ben asked her how she could invoke the “serious need” to defend a violation of international law when her government was the one that had freely negotiated the Northern Ireland Protocol just a few years earlier. It was so, he said. Taking herself extremely seriously – far more than anyone else in Westminster – has its advantages in these cases. It means he can keep a straight face. Others would fight with such a dog. Then he may not be able to distinguish truth from fantasy. One wonders. But in LizWorld he violated and did not violate international law, and he had the right to do whatever he wanted, because the EU had made the fundamental mistake of abiding by the Treaty as a whole. In any case, something had to be done because the protocol was contrary to the Good Friday agreement. That was strange, Ben said, because the convict had said he was “in full compliance” with the GFA. What was not asked was how True fulfilled her ministerial responsibility to use her position to try to claim a job for a lover. Wasn’t that one of the Convict’s responsibilities when he was Foreign Minister? It would be one of the few pieces of work to really make every effort, in every way. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe could rot in jail, but Carrie has to find work. Quickly. Surprisingly though, it’s not one of those low wages at which Johnson spends so much time trying to lead the rest of us. I bet Carrie would have been trained as a train driver now. However, it is only a matter of time before he appoints her as his new ethics consultant.
