As gangsters turn out to be staffing the increasingly privatised prisons, one wonders quite what has to happen for a member of this Cabinet to resign or be sacked.
But then, look, if you can bring yourself to do so, at Gavin Williamson.
There is much mockery of the absurd new posters to recruit people to the Armed Forces, which never seem to ask themselves why no one wants to join them, as most people are perfectly free to do.
Yet the positive respondents to those posters are supposed to be the people who will staff Williamson's projected new bases in tellingly unspecified parts of Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.
The 17 million people in this country with less than £100 in the bank will be delighted to be expected to pay for those outposts.
The 17 million people in this country with less than £100 in the bank will be delighted to be expected to pay for those outposts.
Up to a point, and so long as it were at no cost to themselves, then they might indulge our vanity projects in the Caribbean. After all, they are family.
Quite literally so, as the Windrush scandal indicated. Once, West Indian and Anglo-Saxon youths fought each other with knives outside pubs. But 50 years later, they have grandchildren in common.
Quite literally so, as the Windrush scandal indicated. Once, West Indian and Anglo-Saxon youths fought each other with knives outside pubs. But 50 years later, they have grandchildren in common.
But no one in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor or Brunei is itching for a new British base, not even for a laugh at the Gilbert and Sullivan absurdity of such a thing.
Nor is it clear why we should wish to become any more mixed up with the people running those countries.
Nor is it clear why we should wish to become any more mixed up with the people running those countries.
Meanwhile, we shall continue to rely on jihadi lunatics to function as our ground forces in whatever war that we were ordered by Saudi Arabia to fight in its interest, but not in ours.
Williamson and most or all Conservative MPs think that that is all just fine and dandy, as does the great majority of Labour MPs.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.
I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.
I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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