Breaking the law, breaking the law

Last night, not one Conservative MP voted against the amendment that the Government should follow the Rule of Law and that should protect the independence of the Judiciary. Even former Prime Minister and second worse PM in history, Theresa May, who last week made an impressive, impassioned speech about Governments following the Rule of Law, did not vote against it. She failed to vote at all.

Meanwhile the Prime Minister, instead of holding the scheduled Cabinet meeting or maybe holding another COBRA meeting, travelled to the West Country for a photo-op with regard to adult retraining. And in a press conference got his Government’s legal restrictions for the North East, passed by SI (of course), totally wrong. He did apologise for “mis-speaking”, but the Health Secretary also got it wrong, and is legislation he is responsible for under which the SI was issued.

Most lambasted a clueless Prime Minister who cannot communicate in a clear and concise way, so said pity the poor mite, he’s under a lot of pressure and we all make mistakes. Like breaking the law or giving unlawful advice to the Monarch, I mean, who hasn’t done that one time or another?

The UK requested that car parts from other 3rd countries, Turkey and Japan, be counted as UK, so to avoid tariff and non-tariff barriers come January. The EU refused. This is what happens when you threaten to break the international treaty you signed just nine months ago. This was revealed in a leaked letter from Michael Gove to the motor industry. This will wreck their supply chains. As Brexit was always going to do, though that was project fear then.

So, onto Wednesday, and the shitshow carries on.

Oh, and late last night, another SI was released just minutes before they were to come into force, creating even more uncertainty as to what is legal and not now in many parts of the country. The one person keeping track of these, Adam Wagner, can't understand it, but that might be because he tweeted his impressions after midnight. This is not how normal democracies behave. But is now normal.

I think we are up to 55 sets of SIs and ammendments.

And finally, those who were pointing out that the death rate was not rising therefore the second wave was fake news, will be heartened by the fact the death rate did jump from 13 to 71 in 24 hours. Your wish to be proved wrong has come true. Well done.