As Britain faces lockdown again and America heads in to a daily countdown towards election, both countries figure high on the scale of ineptitude in leadership. Whereas America can make changes come November 3rd, the UK have to put up with their idiot in charge for 3 more years unless the Tory backbenches pull their heads out of their asses and call for a vote of no confidence in the current leadership. Let’s see what has been going on overnight shall we?
In America as the last debate showdown looms up in two days, Trump’s campaign is trying to switch the talking points chosen by the debate commission accusing the organisers of Thursday's showdown of helping the Democrats by leaving out foreign policy as a topic, to which the Biden camp shot back claiming that Trump was trying to avoid questions about his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The topics were announced by moderator and NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker last week as American families, race in America, climate change, national security, and leadership. This prompted Trump during a campaign rally on Monday afternoon in Prescott, Arizona to describe Ms Welker as a “radical Democrat” openly stating she would be “no good”. Trump really doesn’t like powerful women asking him direct question does he? On top of that slanderess remark from Trump his campaign manager Stepien accused Biden of being “desperate to avoid conversations about his own foreign policy record” and the commission of trying to “insulate Biden from his own history”. Stepien also stated that “The Commission's pro-Biden antics have turned the entire debate season into a fiasco and it is little wonder why the public has lost faith in its objectivity”, while also attacking Biden of trying to avoid questions over reports about purported emails from his son, Hunter, and alleged conflicts of interest. Funny how we are seeing yet another Trump attack at a Trump opposition through emails just like they did back in 2016 curiously created the FBI investigation of Hilary Clinton on October 28th, 2016, just days before the election, which is still rolling on four years later with Trump’s lackey of a Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stating he would release unspecified Clinton emails. Will the FBI suddenly announce another email investigation in to the Biden family just days ahead of the election? What really amuses me with the Trump campaign is that for every incorrect statement, blatant lie or poor polling, they always have someone other than Trump to blame. For instance, Stepien accused the moderator of the first debate, Fox News' Chris Wallace, of having acted as “a third combatant” against Trump which the world saw as one arrogant narcissistic man bringing the office of president in to disrepute by constantly interrupting many more times than his challenger which created a war of insults from both parties.
On the good news front for people wishing to hear an uninterrupted debate, organisers have confirmed the decision that microphones will be muted during the final US presidential debate to avoid Donald Trump and Joe Biden interrupting one another which means under the new rules Trump and Biden will get two minutes to answer each question uninterrupted. The moderators were already considering changing debate protocol after chaotic exchanges in the first TV debate saw Biden shout at Trump: “Will you shut up, man!” Yet as expected the Trump campaign has stated the “last minute rule changes” had been made by a “biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favoured candidate”. You know what, it just dumbfounds me how Trump, his administration and now his campaign team can continually find some reason to call the media, the voting public, the Democrats or the world biased against Big Daddy Trump when It is clearly observed that Trump is corrupt, racist, xenophobic, manipulative and each and every day getting more and more unbalanced mentally, but the moronic “Yes” people still pander to his every whim no matter how absurd or delusional they may. Come on America wake up and smell the roses, your president is totally cuckoo. Get out there and turn the country ‘BLUE’ before the ‘RED’ peril sells you in to slavery once again.
On that I will check out the insanity going on in dear old Blighty. So while Tory cabinet ministers argue over Brexit and its impact on the UK economy and security which saw ex-primeminister and Tory backbencher Theresa may questions Michael Gove [who appears to have new distinctive role in the cabinet other than Johnson arse wiper] about the countries security under a ‘NO BREXIT’ deal clearly aimed at the fact the country will lose access to vital information sources such as controlled by the EU courts. Yet while this debate goes on and on and on the weekly deaths linked to coronavirus have risen to their highest level in England and Wales since the beginning of July which is recorded as a total of 438 deaths registered in the week ending 9th October with COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate which is up from 321 deaths in the week to 2nd October marking a 36% rise in deaths from the previous week. Of the 438 deaths, the majority occurred in hospitals (342), with 63 taking place in care homes, 28 at home, three in hospices and two elsewhere.
While people die, people suffer with unemployment and people don’t understand the complexities of the damn 3 tier system, the government fannies on with an explosive debate over Brexit which is a failed experiment of stupidity trying to revert a country back in time to the sixties when travelling to and from Europe or even the rest of the world was more complicated and Blighty still ruled the waves. Johnson is the problem, he changes his allegiances as quick as he changes his underwear [which I hope is at least daily – referring to underwear]. This is a leader who has no clue to what he is doing and relies on a corrupt aid to steer him which inevitably is in the wrong direction. Johnson wanted to be the puppet master of the United Kingdom, but is actually the puppet been controlled by big money, big business and corrupt influencers especially in Dominic Cummings who has been proven to be less than honest when it comes to how government money is allocated. In the last year it has been seen that his personal contact with certain individuals and firms which has led to them receiving multi-million pound deals in government business. And yet there is more, the latest scandal to hit Cummings is the fact that the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) of the government is responsible for dismissing a Council Tax debt of £50000 owed to Durham County Council. Since the story broke Durham Council has announced it will look in to possibilities to appeal the VOA’s decision which was made not to backdate the Council Tax bill for Cummings property in the North East of England which is a ‘Band A’ categorised cottage that he had built on the farm his father owns in 2002. This is just proving more and more how corrupt and immoral the present government actually is, especially the leader who has the morals of a stray dog on heat.
So getting back to Johnson who is managing to keep out of the spotlight opting to serve up his cabinet ministers as interview fodder, it has being noticed that he just keeps racking up losses likened to gambling where he keeps on placing larger stakes, convinced they will turn his misfortune around. In gambling, this plan might only hurt his wallet and his pride, but in a pandemic wrapped around the shock of Brexit, such a strategy could cost, unnecessarily, lives and livelihoods. Faced with a political opponent like the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, who at this present time is able to call upon Johnson’s own Conservative backbenchers to rebel against him, Johnson has opted to double down on his plan to test his way out of the coronavirus crisis which is a real risky bet. Johnson’s problems all lie in his ‘Test and Trace’ protocols which is currently failing due to how long it takes to get results from tests been taken which delays contacting possible carriers from infecting others. Johnson is now pinning his hopes on a new saliva-based test which is supposed to tell whether a person is COVID-positive within 15 minutes on the spot. A lot of ‘Ifs and buts’ which is reliant on unproven science. Yet what is been forgotten is the nearly 45,000 deaths related to coronavirus that were preventable.
Again the most common issue is the man of many masks façade Johnson wears as circumstances require. His scruples have been tossed aside as Johnson failed to keep his promise to meet families bereaved by COVID, then talked about levelling up and helping, but is not prepared to stump up the cash to keep businesses running and people in work in poorer regions that he has forced into lockdown. As it stands nationwide the public [polls suggest] has become distrustful of Johnson’s leadership and there is a sense that his duplicity has been heightened by Brexit machinations. Johnson broke his word to European leaders, reneging on a deal he agreed on, only to then to suggest he is more ideologically malleable than his hard Brexit MPs. What is really needed is for Johnson to rebuild a political consensus for his pandemic strategy. Johnson is in freefall as backbench’s mutiny possibly morphing in to into a revolt where Johnson will need Labour support to pass new measures and his own scientists who are sceptical of his tiered approach need reassurance that there is a plan B. On top of all that going on in London, Johnson should also be prepared to woo local council leaders whose vocal assent would encourage the public to comply with a lockdown regime. What is really needed with the Covid-19 death numbers exponentially climbing though, is not another ‘pie in the sky’ fix for the second wave of the pandemic, but a competent government that Johnson’s team is far from providing and my personal opinion is they should all be sacked, with a coalition cabinet installed to work on the pandemic and Brexit.
Day in day out we as the global populous are the ones at the most risk to the pandemic whether it be from the lack of safeguarding, the lack of verifiable data, the lack of adequate protection, the lack of viable healthcare, the lack governmental competency or the lack of public common sense to social distance and wear masks. Until there is a global recognition of a multi-lateral body to oversee the fight of the pandemic, there will always be a rise in deaths while governments pander to big business before the small individuals and put economy before people’s lives. In too many countries there is a distinct lack of leaders willing to take the extreme measures required to eradicate this illness using false hopes and promises to excuse away their incompetence to govern successfully under the extremist of circumstances. On that I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
