Partygate: Watch these moves!

I didn't think they'd get away with it, but now it looks like they might well do.

Watch these moves! Here's how it works:

Boris Johnson is saying that the investigation will "draw a line under the affair". This means that the investigation will be a cover-up. The "clarity" the public "needs", is of course, complete opacity.

 

The propaganda line has already been finalized, which is that somehow "people" are "fed up of hearing about it", and that it was "only a slice of cake". 

 

Meanwhile the details will actually be carefully hidden as part of the cover-up. This is what they mean when they say they are only publishing the "findings", they are conducting a completely corrupt internal investigation which will then reassure us that the Prime Minister is completely innocent guv, and whose processes we will learn nothing about, because the "details" are not part of the "terms of reference" (ie, complete snow-job).

How do you I know this? Look up Sue Grey. She's notorious for covering-up paper trails; she has advised government ministers to use personal emails to avoid transparency laws, has advised SPADs to double-delete emails to destroy evidence, and has intervened at least six times to help departments fight Freedom Of Information Act disclosures.

 

In short - She's one of them. Sue Gray is a very part of the culture of secrecy, impunity, and lawbreaking that she is investigating. It's a big club, and you're not in it.

This is how corrupt governments hide their corruption. Cover-up, propaganda, and more cover-up. The corruption itsself, of course, helps with the cover-up.

Result: It becomes OK for Important People to break the law. It's normalized - of course they broke the law, the law doesn't apply to them - they're Important! Which fuels more law-breaking and more corruption.

And so, we fall.

Kremlinology at No. 10: Who will our next Great Helmsman be?

Basically it'll be anyone that baby-boomer aged gammons think is a "nice young man" or "just like Maggie".

 

Politics in this country is fucked because it is dominated by the old and the rich. As a result, nothing good is going to happen here for the rest of the decade. Everything else is just kremlinology.

That being said, for the sake of argument people are saying it won't be Sunak cos the Tories are too racist. I think it WILL be Sunak, or at least it's possible that they'd pick him anyway because these days even lots of racists like to pretend they're not racist - and he would be the perfect answer to such accusations.

Also, a lot of Labourites have started to completely lose their shit over India / Pakistan (having already done as much damage to themselves as possible over Israel / Palestine), and an Anglo-Indian would cause them to 'sperg out bigtime. Remember that horrible election poster that portrayed the PM meeting the Indian PM as a betrayal of the electorate? That times 100.

That one.

 Additionally, Sunak's relatively untainted and nice enough looking that he'd tick boxes with middle class liberals, a demographic that Tories have had mostly lost and desperately need back.

Here's the thing though - nothing is going to change. We're like the Soviets, stuck in a rut, nothing ever changes, politics is just a bureaucratic power struggle for the boss class while the economy is controlled by a rigid, sclerotic ideology.

It's hypernormalization: Everyone knows the system's broken but nobody is allowed to fix it. So we just pretend it's working.