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Incompetence, Really?

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There comes a time in a man’s life, a woman’s too I imagine, when they look at incidents of Tory incompetence and realise they happen so frequently they may just not be incompetence at all. The Times newspaper, a Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece which interestingly is becoming less fond of the current Government in power, published an article a few days ago about ministers spaffing £150 million on worthless masks with the wrong kind of straps, as part of a £252 million deal with a little known investment firm Ayanda Capital in April. Ayanda Capital are incidentally registered in Mauritius for tax purposes but perhaps a piece on Tory link tax evading companies will be for another time. It does seem a strange choice, a financial services company with no history of supplying the NHS for this rather important of jobs. Calls of incompetence ring the air. Well they do until you delve a little deeper.

As has already been mentioned, Ayanda Capital have links to the Tory Party through The President of the Board of Trade Liz Truss who was approached by Ayanda Capital through her friend and adviser Andrew Mills. But again there is more because for something to happen once is incompetence, but as the image below suggests, once is not entirely accurate.

At what point does that stop being incompetence. Once or twice at most if we’re being generous. After that well, either they’re severely mismanaging public funds and should be out of office or they’re actively corrupt and not just giving jobs to the boys, but funnelling the money to them directly. Let’s look again at Andrew Mills then shall we. As mentioned he is good mates with Liz Truss, but interestingly enough he’s also an adviser to the Board of Trade and coincidentally you guessed it, sits on the board of trustees for Ayanda Capital.

It is long known about the powers of a sleight of hand, or the importance of using an event or person to distract from other events, think about the idea of what they’re not reporting to be the real and important news. In this case the current government have managed to create the perfect formula; place someone on the throne of government who gives off the impression of being a clown and when accusations of corruption are made, allow them to disappear into the performance of Boris the Buffoon. These are not stupid people. They’re clearly highly intelligent and calculating. Surely there are now far too many examples of incompetence for that to still stand as a genuine accusation. Boris is the sleight, while the hand keeps taking.

This Way Please

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Well we’re one step closer to a tyrannical regime. They’ve decided which direction we can now walk up the street. That would be an example of using an exaggerated statement to belittle a potentially legitimate argument on something ridiculous. Of course we’re not one step closer to a tyrannical regime because of this but it is ridiculous. I should probably explain a little more on what I’m talking about. As you can see from the picture they have created a one way system on the pavements. On one side of the road you can walk up the street and on the other you can walk down. Apparently it’s okay to go into shopping centres and queue outside Primark for hours but god forbid you face someone on the street as you walk towards and pass them. I had a similar opinion on having a one way system in the supermarket, all it seemingly did was confuse and stress people as they did huge laps just to pop back one aisle because they forgot something, or lingered behind as they weren’t sure if it was acceptable to pass you. Saying that I’m not dismissing the fact that statistically even if minimal it could probably have help prevent the spread in some way but it seemed like slight overkill. Outside on the street though; give over.

It’s very easy to get excited by something like this and use it as another example of people slowly being controlled, or getting used to being controlled in the most minute way. But all this is is some bureaucrat sitting in an office somewhere trying to justify the existence of their job and people spurring them on because they know they can use it as an example of some kind of action. Make no mistake something like this is for nothing other than appearance sake, a cosmetic little plaster to cover a deep wound. Actual action would be proper testing not just smudged empty figures, it would be actual PPE for nurses, doctors and care home assistant, it would be a contact tracing app that is ready before November not nearly a year after the first official case in the UK.

This nonsense outside on the street is nothing other than a local version of the same thing we have on a national level. Everything, literally everything, the government have done in combating the spread of Covid-19 has lacked even the remotest amount of substance. It has been enforced reactive empty action for nothing other than appearance sake and we have the highest death rate in the world as a result. Now we have a supposedly skint, when it suits them, council taking two days and four workers to put up and spray a few signs on one little street. Three months of nothing and now just as everything is reopening and the two metre distance rule probably dropped, they finally act. If as the Economist described it; “The government played a bad hand, badly”, the local council it appears don’t even know how to play. Or at least not the game they should be playing.