Gathering for a cupboard away-day on Thursday, Tory ministers had few concepts about how they might reply to the price of residing disaster affecting the day by day lives of hundreds of thousands.
They have been additionally determined to cease being harangued concerning the staggering 100 fastened penalty notices issued to Downing Avenue officers who wrote and broke the lockdown guidelines all of us lived below throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
What higher thought to distract consideration than announce you'll sack one in 5 of the nation’s civil servants.
The transfer, ministers declare, may save billions of kilos.
However, then, so would a tax on the earnings of North Sea oil corporations and no matter occurred to that £350million per week we have been meant to save lots of by not being within the EU?
Clearly, the Tories don’t have the pinstriped “Sure, Minister” Whitehall mandarins of their sight for a cull.
It's the public servants who preserve the nation operating who would be the targets.
In case you are making use of for a passport, ready in useless for a driving take a look at or making an attempt to get an appointment about your advantages and work scenario, the Tory authorities’s redundancy wheeze goes to have an effect on you.
The commerce unions are in righteous fury and threatening to strike.
However that's precisely the response Downing Avenue desires.
Casting public servants because the bogeymen holding the nation again whereas Prime Minister does nothing concerning the financial disaster is the intention right here.
Distraction and diversion are the emblems of Boris Johnson. He's making an attempt to scapegoat public sector workers for his personal very public failings.
Laughing at us
No respectable particular person may look again on the pandemic and assume it was in any method a laughing matter.
Tens of hundreds of individuals misplaced their lives and others have been disadvantaged of seeing their family members for months.
Companies went bust, the NHS practically imploded and the psychological well being of many individuals deteriorated.
But callous Tory chairman Oliver Dowden thought it was OK to donate a bottle of champagne signed by Boris Johnson to a charity public sale.
In a dismal try at making mild of Partygate, the outline on the bottle learn: “Massively helpful as a memento of partygate and the exemplary behaviour and morality of our pricey chief.”
Not solely have been Johnson and cronies partying onerous whereas others obeyed lockdown guidelines, they're overtly guffawing about it.
That is additional proof the Authorities is run by privileged cretins who don't perceive the sacrifices made over the past two years.
Voters ought to have the final chuckle by turfing these chancers out of workplace.
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