It feels as if Wednesday 10th May 2017
is building up to be a black day for democracy.
I woke up to the news that Trump had fired James
Comey, the FBI director, the man in charge of investigating the Trump
campaign's connections with Russia.
Then came the news that the CPS are not going to
take legal action against the Conservative Party candidates who it
was alleged had made false declarations of expenses in the local
elections. 'Battle buses' which had been brought into the area to
support the local candidates had not been submitted as election
expenses. Apparently those signing the expenses declarations didn't
act dishonestly so no case can be brought. The Conservative Party
has always insisted administrative errors were to blame. So even
though the battle buses no doubt played an important role in gaining
seats, those running the campaigns were ignorant and prone to
administrative mistakes so were let off the hook!
All this comes at a time when the forthcoming
general election seems to be presenting a pretty 'fluffy' picture of
Teresa May – she and husband Philip received a pretty fawning
interview on the One Show. He puts the bins out … there's boys
jobs' and girls' jobs sort of stuff. Nothing about the desperate
state of our schools and hospitals.
"administrative errors" and they are the people who want us to let them run our country?
ReplyDeletePerhaps people will change their minds before the election and the Tories won't get the landslide the polls are predicting. A poll in the local paper in Derbyshire had a third of people undecided
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