Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Mother of nodding dogs.

"In a huge blow to embattled British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, two of his senior Cabinet colleagues, including Chancellor Rishi Sunak, resigned on Tuesday, as they expressed their loss of confidence in their leadership amidst a spate of scandals. The 42-year-old British Indian minister posted his resignation letter on Twitter soon after another senior Cabinet colleague, UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid, resigned," Telegraph. Rishi Sunak was born in Britain of Indian parents, who had migrated from East Africa, and was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or Finance Minister, wikipedia. Following Javid and Sunak's resignations a total of 44 ministers and aides have resigned from the government, BBC. Opposition Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called the Conservatives a "corrupted party defending the indefensible" and called loyalists of Johnson a "Z list cast of nodding dogs" and called them the "charge of the lightweight brigade", BBC. England is the "Mother of Parliaments," wikipedia. No one ever resigns in India, no matter what they have to do to cling on to their posts. "We Indians are proud of our democracy no matter where we live," said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Munich, Germany. "Every Indian says this with pride that India is the mother of democracy." DH. "The world's largest democracy, it turns out, has a government full of men - and occasionally women - who are steeped in and emerging from the world of crime. What's curious is that the crimes many Indian politicians are accused of are not white-collar crimes like corruption or bribery, but serious offences like murder, kidnapping, arson, banditry, rapes and more," wrote Milan Vaishnav. "Yet voters keep electing them and parties keep choosing them as their candidates. In 2014, some 34 percent of India's members of parliament faced criminal cases; 21 percent faced serious ones." Carnegie. Clearly, criminals are safe from the noose as long as they are ministers and will therefore do anything for the leader to stay there. After all, if you have committed one murder, you will have no qualms about committing another. Or a few more. "In recent years, there are signs of institutional collapse that make it that much easier for an all powerful government to ensure a veil of opacity over its decision-making," wrote Rajdeep Sardesai. if you raise any abjection to whatever the government does you maybe charged with sedition under Section 124A, drafted by Thomas Macaulay in 1860 to keep Indian natives under the boots of the British monarch, TIE. Another British law from 1920 is being modernized as the Identification of Prisoners Act which will allow the police to forcibly acquire "finger-impressions, palm-print impressions, foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis, behavioral attributes including signatures, handwriting or any other examination" from anyone they want to accuse, wrote lawyer Gautam Bhatia. In Britain, they resign on principle. Here they keep nodding. For safety.          

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