Villains Together
We're coming up to the weekend when newspapers and online media try to lighten up a bit and provide stuff like giant crosswords and quizzes. I don't have a crossword, giant or otherwise, but here's a short quiz of the week:
1 Who said: "This Parliament is a dead Parliament, it should no longer sit. It has no moral right to sit on these green benches"?
Yes, it was Geoffrey Cox, Attorney General, the senior legal figure in the current Westminster parliament. This is the man who gave the UK government wrong information about proroguing the house of commons which led to the UK government's decision to close parliament down being overturned by the Supreme Court.
Did he apologise? Far from it: he thinks this mess is all the fault of the UK's elected representatives. In particular, he seemed to be talking to his own party's MPs.
2 Who said: "Humbug" when told off by MPs for using inflammatory language?
Yes, it was the UK Prime Minister. He wasn't sorry either, going on to tell MPs that Jo Cox - murdered in the street, you'll remember, by a right wing terrorist, was best remembered by "getting Brexit done." The Prime Minister seemed to forget for a time that he was addressing the whole house, not just the Tory MPs who are so annoying to him and Geoffrey Cox. His contempt for MPs - Labour as much as Tory - was pretty clear.
3 And who criticised the SNP for not backing Theresa May’s Brexit deal, adding: “We could have had a Withdrawal Agreement if only members of the Scottish National Party were as good as their word and put the interests of Scotland ahead of narrow sectarian, secessionist and separatist arguments”?
Yes, Michael Gove, another member of Johnson's government, who seems to pick his words because they are alliterative, not because they make any sense. I'll bet a few SNP members were more than put out by that use of the word 'sectarian'. You'd think since he was born in Edinburgh he would know the meaning of the word and what it suggests to many Scottish people. And, of course, his comment is nonsense. It just spread the guilt - and his aggressive attitude - across the political parties.
You'd be hard put to come up with a more appalling line-up than this lot.
What was the point of all this toxic language? These government 'leaders' weren't, in fact, addressing their legally-elected colleagues at all, but the hard core of Brexit voters out there 'in the country' (mainly England), keeping them onside and trying to stop them drifting off to the Brexit Party.
It's no surprise that Johnson's attack dog, Cummings, has had the nerve to back up their approach. Well, he probably thought it up in the first place.
Nor is it too surprising that BBC online is running as its lead story on its Scottish page a story entitled: Johnson vows to compensate for 'SNP inadequacies' and 'Boris Johnson vows to compensate Scots with stronger economy.'
Just remember it's Friday: the BBC always, but always, runs a story like this on its website at the weekend. I wonder if the Scottish Government will get to reply...
1 Who said: "This Parliament is a dead Parliament, it should no longer sit. It has no moral right to sit on these green benches"?
Yes, it was Geoffrey Cox, Attorney General, the senior legal figure in the current Westminster parliament. This is the man who gave the UK government wrong information about proroguing the house of commons which led to the UK government's decision to close parliament down being overturned by the Supreme Court.
Did he apologise? Far from it: he thinks this mess is all the fault of the UK's elected representatives. In particular, he seemed to be talking to his own party's MPs.
2 Who said: "Humbug" when told off by MPs for using inflammatory language?
Yes, it was the UK Prime Minister. He wasn't sorry either, going on to tell MPs that Jo Cox - murdered in the street, you'll remember, by a right wing terrorist, was best remembered by "getting Brexit done." The Prime Minister seemed to forget for a time that he was addressing the whole house, not just the Tory MPs who are so annoying to him and Geoffrey Cox. His contempt for MPs - Labour as much as Tory - was pretty clear.
3 And who criticised the SNP for not backing Theresa May’s Brexit deal, adding: “We could have had a Withdrawal Agreement if only members of the Scottish National Party were as good as their word and put the interests of Scotland ahead of narrow sectarian, secessionist and separatist arguments”?
Yes, Michael Gove, another member of Johnson's government, who seems to pick his words because they are alliterative, not because they make any sense. I'll bet a few SNP members were more than put out by that use of the word 'sectarian'. You'd think since he was born in Edinburgh he would know the meaning of the word and what it suggests to many Scottish people. And, of course, his comment is nonsense. It just spread the guilt - and his aggressive attitude - across the political parties.
You'd be hard put to come up with a more appalling line-up than this lot.
What was the point of all this toxic language? These government 'leaders' weren't, in fact, addressing their legally-elected colleagues at all, but the hard core of Brexit voters out there 'in the country' (mainly England), keeping them onside and trying to stop them drifting off to the Brexit Party.
It's no surprise that Johnson's attack dog, Cummings, has had the nerve to back up their approach. Well, he probably thought it up in the first place.
Nor is it too surprising that BBC online is running as its lead story on its Scottish page a story entitled: Johnson vows to compensate for 'SNP inadequacies' and 'Boris Johnson vows to compensate Scots with stronger economy.'
Just remember it's Friday: the BBC always, but always, runs a story like this on its website at the weekend. I wonder if the Scottish Government will get to reply...
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