COVID-19: Making Political Points out of a Pandemic.

 So far this week we've had Labour MPs lying about lack of engagement with government over local lockdowns, we've had the leader of the Labour Party lying, saying that all Northern Councils were against the lockdowns, which pissed off the leader of Bolton Town Council.

Then we had the leader of the Welsh assembly (yet another Labour idiot) saying that he's closing the border to Wales and stopping people from covid hotspots entering "his country". Totally unpoliceable and in effect racist. Denying people from England access to Wales when parts of Wales are fucked and in extra lockdown measures anyway is a bit rich. 

It's exactly the same as people blaming the channel-crossing immigrants for everything bad that happens in England. It's just as bad, just as wrong-headed.

Talking about immigrants, what is he going to do about the immigrants being bussed from the Dover coast direct to the camp in Wales? 

Especially as they are not isolated for two weeks, they can roam free as soon as they get to Wales. Is Mr Drakeford going to install a wall around the camp to protect his Welsh countryfolk?

Or is he talking totally unworkable bollocks for soundbites? I think I know the answer.

Wee Jimmy Crankie up in Haggisland is also facing somewhat of a quagmire of her own making now. The rules and regulations in the North have twisted and turned so much.

I just wish that we could just get back to common sense politics. But no-one is holding the posturing politicians to account. The press certainly aren't asking intelligent questions when policy is announced, which begs the question: are the press intelligent?

If the press don't have the wit or intelligence to ask probing questions, then who will? 

If we don't start start knocking the lying, grandstanding, point-scoring politicians down a peg or two, we're on a very slippery slope. Because the politicians will get a sense of unfettered power, which is not a good thing. Being held to account is what prevents excesses like those that happened in the thirties. We do not want totalitarian governments of any stripe, flag, banner or political persuasion.