>> Two words.
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>> Diane Abbott.
How utterly predictable. She may, judged on recent (ie 2017 performances when she was ill) be the weak link in my argument. She didn not however get to be the first black woman in the Civil Service fast stream, the first black woman MP, the winner of awards for debating in the Commons or the holder of a regular slot on Andrew Neil's show by being an intellectual lightweight. And I hope nobody will use that last word as a peg for the sort of sexist labelling to which she is all to often exposed.
My point is that whenever the point is made that Johnson and his crew are making a pigs ear of government (in general not just Covid) somebody trots out a 'whataboutery' post on the imagined failings of a Corbyn government that never existed. In the course of my post I identified Michael Gove, whose policy stance on pretty much anything I abhor, as a competent Minster. I base that particularly on his time as LC and Sec of State for Justice. He also achieved what he set out to at Education, even if it was (IMHO) wrong headed and disastrous.
PM's have always wanted people in Cabinet who share their stance. The Blair era was not the first time that the PM was wary of those following a Mr G Brown:-). Boris has surrounded himself with people like Patel, Braverman and Raab (who looked like somebody on works experience as acting PM) who have but on qualification - belief in Brexit.
>> >> If Johnson had been honest and published the Grieve Report on meddling in the
>> referendum
>> >> then maybe that would have been the jolt needed to get Jo Swinson to
>> stop
>> >> beggaring about and get a Unity Government in place a year ago. Then how
>> might
>> >> history have panned out?
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>> Who?
Jo Swinson or Dominic Grieve? Google is your friend.
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