Plenty to bore about rumble about today!
The Epstein saga: This is going to run and run and being an American scandal it will be 'yuuuuuuge'! To be honest, I am already losing such minimal interest as I ever had but 'still 'n' all' there will be much fun to be had watching various well known faces turning scarlet!
Gauke the Dork: I refer, of course, to that ineffably pompous prat, David Gauke MP. Happily, 'Boing-Boing' pulled the trigger on him within days of taking over in No.10 but he had been Justice Minister and Lord Chancellor. It was in that capacity he reprimanded a judge who had told a grossly fat, persistent offender to lose weight and get a job. As Mr. Peter Hitchens puts it in The Mail:
At first glance, the thing is just ridiculous. You think that at some point you will wake up in the midst of this nonsense, and grown-ups will return, from wherever they have been hiding, to restore the country to sanity. But they don’t. The one thing you can be sure of in this country now is that the state, where it possibly can be, will be against common sense.
'Boing-Boing' bangs the gavel: And yet more good news! At last we seem to have a Prime Minister determined to toughen up the criminal (non)justice system under which sundry malefactors are sentenced to 'yuuuuuge', long prison terms - and are then let out after a few months with a bag of sweeties and a message from the prison governor telling them to behave! According to reports, 'Boing-Boing' is determined to have honest sentencing which is enforced and prison regimes which are strict and uncomfortable. He had better get on with it because behind him, slapping her truncheon into the palm of her hand, stands Priti Patel, the new Home Secretary who has similar views and will brook no softness!
Better watch out, the 'Cummings' is coming! Oh, how I wish I could be a fly on the wall inside No.10 and observe the howls of anguish as the 'Cummings Tornado' rip-roars through the hitherto comfortable, cosy establishment of quill-dippers. I know little of the man except for his tremendous efforts in helping the country to win the Brexit referendum. According to all the reports, Dominic Cummings appears to be a single-minded maniac but happily, very happily in my opinion, his maniacal energies are all directed at the slothful and mostly useless civil service to ensure that from now on all of them are concentrated 24/7 on driving through Brexit. Go, Dom, go!
America, if you want your constitution, you can have your constitution: Just don't send it over here! Thus, speaks - or rather writes - 'MDJ', My Darling Janet (Daley) who will be, of course, the proto-mother of my children - if and when she ever gets round to answering my summons! In the meantime, she has a fascinating article in The Telegraph pointing out the flaws and problems with the American constitution.
The Second Amendment to the US Constitution was devised to protect the new-found states against the danger of a coup by federal government which was seen as a form of proxy for the old colonial ruler. It guaranteed the right of the states to form militias and, as a necessary corollary, of the people to bear arms. It is an almost perfect example of the danger embodied in a written constitution – which is to say, it froze the historic concerns of the time in which it was written, into the unforeseeable future. [My emphasis]
Dammit, she is an exceedingly shrewd lady.
Best photo of the year! A really good news photo is one which tells its own story as clearly as a written report. Thanks to The Mail on Sunday:
Poor old 'Phil the Pill' Hammond as pictured on the Underground with his cases as he finally vacates No.11 Downing Street two weeks after he was given the push! What can one say except - ohdearwhatapitynevermind!
Let's hear it for the 'extras'! Yes, all those (sort of) faceless men and women who people the background to so many films, for example, the British born Mr. Robert G. Haines (1894 - 1961) in their role as 'extras'. As an exceedingly amateur amateur actor myself, I have a sort of fellow feeling for them. In a (sort of) interesting article at the Los Angeles Review of Books there is an article on Mr. Haines' career in which the sheer number of famous movies in which he appeared is quite incredible. Most of his 'work' barely lasted more than a day but he never stopped working. Good for him - and the rest of the unsung heroes!
The, er, Charter for a National Government: Mr. Charles Moore is a well known 'naughty boy' which is only right, fitting and proper for an ex-editor of The Spectator. So, very naughtily, he suggests a manifesto for the Remainer Faction, led by Kenneth Clarke, who are striving by all means possible to undo Brexit:
“We’re against the referendum. We’re against the result of the referendum and against the promise we MPs made to implement it. We don’t agree with the 17.4 million people who voted Leave and we don’t think that the biggest vote for anything in our history should be respected. Parliament, including many of us, voted for Article 50 and for the Withdrawal Act, which ensure that we leave if no deal is made; but we’re against them all the same. Unite!
“We want a second referendum – except some of us, including me, don’t. We want to leave the EU with a deal – except that some of us, including me – don’t want to leave at all. We think this Parliament would vote for a deal – except that most of us threw out Mrs May’s one three times by huge majorities. Unite!
“The Conservative Party has just voted heavily among both its MPs and its members for Boris Johnson to be leader. We’re against that. Jeremy Corbyn has twice been elected Labour leader, but we’re against that too. And by the way, we’re against the promises made by both the main parties at the general election to ensure Brexit – or at least I am. Unite!”
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Must stop now, I have a book to read: Hitherto, I have never thought of John le Carré as a humourist although the title of his book that I am reading is "Our Kind of Traitor" and that drips with dry, sardonic humour! I picked it up from the church fete a couple of weeks ago and it is a corker! Packed full of the sort of odd-ball eccentrics you would expect to find inside MI6!
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