Sunday 11 October 2020

It's Her Party And She'll Stay If She Wants To

Some World leaders consider Democracy to be so good that they are willing to send other peoples husbands, wives and children into war and bomb the population of far flung places to try and install it but as the current crop of Western Democratically elected leaders are showing, sometimes you get a couple of real duffers in charge.
That's the main problem with Democracy, the whole process is only 1 day every 4-5 years and the elected personnel can do what he or she wants without censor until the wheel slowly grinds back around again and we get the chance to vote him or her out.
What would improve Democracy is a way to remove the elected officials if they turn out to be a dud or found breaking the rules during a global pandemic which brings us neatly to SNP Margaret Ferrier who travelled on a train from London to Scotland whilst aware she was contagious with COVID-19 but is insisting that she will not resign.
She has held up her now sanitised hands to travelling to London from Glasgow after taking a Coronavirus test last month despite showing symptoms for Coronavirus and once she received confirmation of a positive result, took the train back to her Scottish constituency therefore breaking the Coronavirus rules of two countries, Scotland and England.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told Margaret Ferrier that she should resign as an MP and has removed the whip which effectively throws her out of the SNP but with no attachment to a political party, it allows her to continue as an Independent MP until the next election and nothing anybody can do to stop her.
As Churchill nodded towards, Democracy is deeply imperfect but it is what we have and the reason why Margaret Ferrier will still be looking at her £6827 plus expenses MP's payslip this month and not her P45.

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