What is wrong with these Tories?

[dynamitedan]

Time for a little rant I feel as I sit here and watch the unfolding stories in the news both on tv and also on-line.
Finally we have the buffoon Mitchell falling on his sword after denying abusing Police Officers and then eventually admitting that, yes, he did swear at them!
Even as I type, the other idiot Gove is on tv expressing admiration for him and making out that Mitchell is the one who has been wronged.
Unbelievable!
Then we have the man in charge of the nations finances travelling 1st class on a standard class ticket and refusing to move until eventually his aide pays £160 to upgrade his ticket when if he had paid the correct fare for the seat he wanted to sit in before travelling it would only have cost £65!
If that wasn't enough then the icing on the cake is finding on line the report about former Tory Barwell Parish councillor Drew Fellwows due in court on charges for using a PT cruiser motor vehicle without insurance and perverting the course of justice between June 14, 2011 and May 15, 2012 at Sutton on Sea.
It further alleges that Andrew Ferryman gave false details on a Notice of Intended prosecution and sent false e-mails to the police which resulted in the arrest of an innocent third party.
So from the top to the bottom they all think they are better than Joe Public and exempt from ordinary rules of behaviour.
I tell you what if I wasn't so disgusted by the whole shower I could laugh till I wet myself.
If this is what the educated toffs have to offer then God help us all!

[freddo]

Gove is frightening. He appears to be taking schooling back to the 1950's, with little or no opposition. No education related qualifications, other than he went to school once. Setting up schools with unqualified staff at great expense to us, the taxpayer.
What next - NHS does not need qualified doctors?
He seems to have an announcement every day of the week. I hope he is not aiming to step into 'call me Dave's' shoes.
For me the publication of the Bullingdon picture said it all.
They need to go before they do much more damage.

[carvanian]

Were you a bit hasty in condemning Mitchell Dan?

[dynamitedan]

Nah, not really.
He admitted from the off that he swore at them and lost his temper, that in it's self should be enough for him to fall on his sword if he had a shred of decency.
Which politicians of all parties lack in droves these days!
Why from the outset he simply didn't say sorry and reveal all is beyond me, unless of course he really doe's see himself as Lord and Master and the rest as plebs.

[dynamitedan]

Today is the day then for our Mr Fellows/Ferryman!
He is due for sentencing if he turns up.
He apparently missed at least 2 previous court appearances because of failing health, rumoured suffering from hepatitis b and the associated unspeakable infection, so I don't hold out much hope of him being there or getting any kind of custodial sentence if he does!
Amazing how he has driven for years without even having a driving license, the local Conservative party and Mr Treddinick must be very proud of their choice of bedfellow (pun intended) from when he was the rising star here!
Yet another really wonderful chap who has an history of lies and deceit going back years and yet people wanted to thrust him into the limelight and seek to place him in positions of power.

Now on the subject of 'Plebgate', it really does look like a set-up of some sort.
Maybe he did or didn't call the officer a pleb, but he DID admit to swearing at him and yet still refuses to reveal what he did say.
All very strange and not exactly what the people of this country deserve from those elected to serve.
And there lies the problem as far as i can see.
From the pair of examples above we have examples of the wrong kind of person that currently is embroiled in politics.
They seemingly have an in-built ability to continue to tell lies and/or evade the truth even when caught out from a desire to be the ruling class that somehow they think is their right by birth.
It still happens locally at all levels across all party's, why?
Is it really expecting too much in this day and age to look for people of decency and honour to step to the line and serve the people and not the party or themselves?