Over on the other side of the pond, we've got Dominic Cummings who's been making the news rounds lately over his personal defiance of lockdown rules in Britain.
Cummings is Bojo's closest adviser and was instrumental in the campaign for taking Britain out of the EU. Strangely, he has never been a member of the Conservative Party, but has largely been involved with support roles in the Conservative party for the last two decades or so.
There was nothing fundamentally to object to regarding Cumming's work or behaviour until very recently when he travelled to his home town of Durham despite having recently been showing signs of COVID infection. It's important to note that Cummings was one of the earlier advocates of lockdowns which makes he behaviour even more deplorable.
Why is this a big deal?
Aside from breaking the rules the entire country has been following; even as their family members die in hospital alone. The incident shows an important precedent which unbeknown to many has always been around. That is the law doesn't apply to some people as long as they are rich, powerful, or friends with people that are.
If you belong to the class of people that reign with impunity, then you can say one thing but do another, and your friends in government can crony together and pretend like everything's fine. No rules broken, no consequences.
And just like Bojo's questionable integrity - oh, I dunno, maybe giving friends millions of pounds of public tax payer money for bullshit contracts - Cummings has shown the same level of audaciousness of ignoring public rules, and calling for help from his boss for quite literally acting illegally and irresponsibly during a very sensitive time.
What is worse?
The fact that he broke the rules? Or the fact that he got away with it and the media just gobbled it up like it's not a big deal.
Nepotism is a big friggin' deal. And the culture (not just in the UK) of many countries seem to condone it. Can you imagine what people would think if they could get away with murder as long as they were friends with people who could cover it up and blitz it away like it never happened? People would be mysteriously dying all the bloody time. Like what happens in China, like what happens in Russia, like what happens-quite frankly- in the US.
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