(Yet) Another One Bites the Dust...

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I've simply lost track of the body-count of senior government ministers, let alone Prime Ministers: either those eventually defenestrated or the ones who've elected to commit political seppuku in order to glean the merest scrap of dignity out of their ignominy: AKA attempting to salvage their future political careers. However many the tally currently stands at, I don't imagine it's yet plateaued out: this shower seems doomed to repeat their mistakes, missteps and misdeeds ad infinitum, or at least until the electoral process finally kicks in, and we can then, God willing, consign the whole sorry lot into the skip of failed political parties, hopefully in perpetuity.

How all this looks to those outside looking in, you can only guess at; but I suspect our former European friends and colleagues are howling peels of laughter in sheer disbelief at the circus we now present ourselves as: how can an archipelago of countries, once so admired and respected - obviously, your view may differ depending on your historical, cultural or moral perspective - sink into such a mire of sleaze, graft, deception and gross ineptitude in such a relatively short period of time? To be honest, it was ever thus, but that truism belies just how so, so much worse this lot is, than governments have ever been in times past.

Fact is, this lot should by now be packing their bags and preparing to depart the Palace of Westminster, because an early election is the only answer to their litany of failures, delayed excuses, and decisions about serious issues of misconduct made only when the "Oh shit, someone noticed!" realization smacks them square in the face. Someone should remind these clowns that governance and public service, jointly and severally, require integrity, dedication and some actual, hard, work, in return for the not inconsiderable amount of public money and trust invested in them by their electorate. They simply don't understand or most likely simply don't care, just so long as the cheques clear into their bank accounts...

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