Cronyism

The difference between my country and yours, is that I know mine is corrupt.

A story I read a few years back that might be true, of a conversation between a Brit and an African.

Yesterday, Johnson gave peerages to 39 people, mostly Brexit supporters, to inflate numbers of the upper chamber to over 800, making it the largest such chamber in the world.

This will dilute any kind of legislative scrutiny the Lords should undertake.

Gisela Stuart, Kate Hoey, Claire Fox. Amazing to see how many leading Brexiters who condemned unelected politicians making our laws are happy to become unelected politicians making our laws.

I cannot say how much I despise this list of crony peers. Utterly, utterly corrupt. We are a banana republic without even being a republic.

If this wasn't bad enough, one of the ennobled was IT Botham, wonderful cricketer and foot spa salesman, who was very vocal in his support for Brexit. Having read his first autobiography, I doubt whether he has the intellectual rigour to scrutinise Government bills.

This stinks, and yet is not surprising. This is what would happen to Johnson and Gove id Brexit wrecks the country, so future PM would just put them on the Lord's gravy train, and they can suckle at the teat of public "service" for the rest of their life, not have to worry about money or work, claiming their £150 a day for logging in, and then going for a three course lunch, plus wine, at the heavily subsided restaurant, whilst blocking aid for the sick, disabled or poor.