Georgia On My Mind

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That Donald Trump has sought, no; pleaded, begged and to quote AP ‘badgered’, Georgia’s secretary of state Raffensperger for support in defrauding the presidential election result for that state comes as no real surprise to anyone. But to my mind, the gratifying thing about this rather pathetic conclusion to the worst Presidential tenure in modern US political history, is that the Emperor’s new clothes have been recognised, at least by the authorities that matter, at last for what they are not. There is on the face of it, hope for some retrenchment of sanity in the near future. I wish it were so on this side of the Atlantic.
We have to face the fact that constitutionally at least, Johnson can continue to cause chaos for another four years, pretty much unopposed. That his government of carefully selected, under-achieving and grateful just to be there yes-people continue to screw over the electorate that gave them such a commanding majority at the last election, is like Trump’s conduct, by now no surprise. Unlike the US, we have no way out of this situation without a considerable rebellion from the Tory back benches, who thus far have shown no spirit or spine to defy the whip; the best of their number having either already resigned or been sacked by the Star Chamber at the heart of our ‘Government’.


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