T.R.O.Y. wrote:I'm just confused why you would respond to Hisop's comment about incompetence by saying we haven't seen anything illegal?
Because we are governed by laws not opinions.
Apart from fully acknowledging that the publishing of PPE contract details within specified time limits had not been met in the mist of a worldwide pandemic then what illegality has been found to have occurred?
If you give people the impression that corruption, cronyism, incompetence, etc has happened (and still is) then, unfortunately, a huge majority seem to believe it has irrespective of there being no actual proof.
If you then have people on the streets, their anger arising from what they believe, then it is directed at authority - the police yesterday for instance.
Do you beleve many if any of those 'attacking' the police last night don't believe the government to be incompetent and corrupt - yet there isn't actually any proof they have been, only inuendo and the say so of 'influencers' such as Maugham.
What do you think the end goal of all this is, to replace a 'dodgy' Tory government with an 'undodgy' one - of course it isn't it is to bring the government down and replace it with a rival one - Labour being the most obvious.
Of course no government gets everything right and mistakes will be made but where actually is the proof to back up all these claims of cronyism and corruption?
Wind people up and most will react, obviously - you only need look on here to see that!
But if you get them on the streets and brining chaos to the capital...
...and attacks on the establishment...
...then is it any wonder why the establishment looks to protect itself by means of legislation such as the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill?
Seems an obvious link of cause and effect to me - the more the masses are 'agitated' by activists the more the establishment will move to take measures to quell them. Isn't that obvious?
I have no doubt that if we hadn't seen activists effectively closing down central London for days and statues being torn down. vandalised and thrown into rivers, then measures to stop such things happening in future would not have been needed.
You reap what you sow as they say.
You beat the system from within, not by attacking it from the outside.
If there has been corruption, cronyism, etc, find the proof, take them to court and allow justice to take its course.
Simple, otherwise the alternative is anarchy.