Discovering a substitute ethics adviser for the tawdry Boris Johnson is a futile endeavour.
What's the level in having anybody within the position when we have now essentially the most ethically-challenged Prime Minister in historical past?
Lord Geidt, who has made a profession out of discreet institution diplomacy, tried to make out he was leaving his submit all of the sudden due to a disagreement over an opaque piece of commerce coverage.
This was simply an try and paper over the true causes the second ethics adviser in three years walked out on the duplicitous Johnson.
Geidt was blatantly misled by Johnson in an investigation into which non-public donor paid for the PM’s flat to be wallpapered.
Sick to the again tooth of getting to place up with Johnson, Geidt took the final practice out of dodgy Downing Avenue.
He returns to his Hebridean farm steading together with his status and honour singed however not consumed on the bonfire of lies the Tory occasion continues to bounce round.
His parting broadside – accusing the Prime Minister of being in full contempt of the foundations of public life – is a personality reference that precisely defines Boris Johnson.
However you don’t must be an ethics adviser to have the measure of a person who has by no means been match for prime workplace.
Johnson’s premiership has been constructed on dishonesty from the beginning.
Belief in British politics can't be restored till he and his acolytes are faraway from energy.
Medicine debacle
Scotland's drug deaths disaster reveals little signal of disappearing.
We had been promised by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Medicine Minister Angela Constance that they'd do issues otherwise and higher when the well being emergency got here to a head final yr.
And all gamers within the medicine coverage discipline agreed that radical voices can be heard, that these with lived expertise of habit and restoration can be on the entrance and centre of our new methods.
We now hear howls of grievance by essentially the most outstanding group representing these in restoration from drug habit.
FAVOR claims it's nearly blacklisted and ignored by the Scottish Medicine Discussion board which hosts a significant occasion in August.
There'll at all times be disagreements between teams vying for affect – even anger when the stakes are so excessive.
However the squabbles and distrust that exist between outstanding organisations amid this enduring nightmare will do little to enhance the state of affairs.
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