by
Les May
BELOW
are some extracts from an article by Mandy Rhodes the editor
of Holyrood Magazine which appeared in The Sunday
Post today.
‘Just
over two months ago, we forged a very special agreement with our
government when we signed away our freedoms. Such was the trust that
we invested in the democratically elected powers-that-be, that we did
as we were told. We complied, like sheep, on the understanding that
the sacrifice was for the greater good.
'But
Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s closest aide, has
made us out to be fools. He has humiliated us and opened my son’s
eyes to the debasement of democracy and etched something into his
brain about the ugliness of political motivation that will never
heal.
'He
has seen for himself the way the truth gets twisted, how easily
elected politician are prepared to eschew honour, how government
ministers willingly operate as sock puppets and he has seen a
government prepared to mock its own people for their servility.
Cummings’ circumstance were not exceptional, they were ordinary. He
(Cummings) was blind to the fact that in this pandemic, his situation
was no different, no more ‘tricky’ or ‘complicated that it is
for the rest of us.’
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