Gavin Williamson and Priti Patel sit in a Cabinet from which they had previously been sacked for something perilously close to treasonable acts, although Williamson does still deny it and he may be right. Patel, though, revels in it.
David Laws was forced out for something that would have led to his imprisonment if he had been a Housing Benefit claimant, when the misappropriated sums would have been vastly lower. Yet he returned to attending Cabinet. And so on.
It all goes back, all of it, to the fact that no one has ever, ever, ever been drummed out of public life for having lied this country into war in 2003, something that Tony Blair himself stopped bothering to try and deny in an interview with Fern Britton as long ago as 2009.
Donald Trump's riot has killed all of five people, and Trump himself has never started a war. It seems highly likely that the people who shilled for Trump will never work again. So be it. But what about the people who have done vastly greater harm?
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