Deceit and Dishonour

 Surely these things in high office are to be frowned upon and indeed they should be whiter than white so to speak?  Not our lot in government now - there seems to be a daily exposé of untruths and downright lies if we are honest about it.

I cannot say that I am a Policeman or a Doctor or trained professional but if I were a politican I can claim to be many things.  The recent on is the Business Secretary who states he is a Solicitor.  Well. no he isn't, he did train to be one but no, he isn't one.  His CV and many other documents state that he is.  These people have no shame though and despite this being pretty serious, they come out with some old bollocks about it.

None of them appear to have actually done' any of the jobs they say they have and all of them seem deficient in the ability to do the job or to actually tell the truth.  

We had this in business and the thing was, despite what our bosses stated, to test them in difficult circumstances and see if they pulled through or buckled.  The three year men we used to call them for that is how long each job role lasted before they were promoted through their incompetence and then, just before they were found out, they'd leave and go to the next company ready to cause havoc there.

One of the most amazing things was my old boss took on an "Electrician" and sent him to site where he turned up in his shiny new shoes, tool box and extremely smartly dressed.   There was something strange but he seemed willing and pleasant enough.  My foreman set him to work and I went to see him and took one look at his work and asked him to redo it.  Even I, a few years off the tools could do better.  He did another go and I called the foreman and we went to see him when he then admitted that he wasn't an electrician at all, he just chanced his arm.  I bollocked my boss and asked him how he'd taken on these guys.  He'd placed an advert and conducted rudimentary interviews, didn't vet them with anyone, didn't ask to see their union card or their trade card and just took them on.  

As an aside he'd managed to take on two of the very worst (blacklisted) people too and so I had a lot of fun to come on that but I digress.

So why is it acceptable that these people lie? Why do we, the paying public stand for it?  Are we so worn down by these corrupt officials we let them get away with it or are we hoping for some sort of miracle to get rid of them?   They really are the worst bunch you've ever seen and some of them can barely string together a coherent argument but you'd not like to be near them out in the street or down the pub they look deranged and the sort to break out into violent disorder as they are foul and spout incontinent verbiage.  Evil acid tongued no nothing liars the lot.

I enjoy how enraged they are by Donald Trump.  They sound pathetic and make out like they really matter in world affairs anymore.  Not one of them is statesman like or politically astute enough to realise that we as a country no longer matter and Europe is not faring better.  We've been called out and found wanting and we are making ourselves look and sound irrelevant on the world stage.  Amateurs could do a better job than this lot, really they could.

Oh well, I suppose we need to give them enough rope and let themselves run as fast as they can.  I don't know if they know how irrelevant they actually are and what a car crash awaits us all as we hurtle headlong down a blind set of very dark, foggy  alleys.