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By Situation Theatre 28/5/2020
Sure he’s not technically born or raised here, but what could be more Australian than hypocritical conservative charlatans ruling the nation without any accountability for their actions?
Leaks from inside Mr Morrison’s office suggest he is planning to bypass the independent process for Australia’s highest honour, making the “captain’s call” that the chief advisor to the British Prime Minister Dominic Cummings should take the award which was first ruined by Tony Abbott back in 2015.
Now that evading scrutiny and gaining immunity from consequences for rule-breaking is the Coalition’s favourite sport, the PM has decided to honour Cummings, whose flouting of the British Government’s lockdown laws and antipathy to accountability has made him Mr Morrison’s personal hero.
Here in Australia, the Government’s catastrophic failure to heed repeated warnings from experts about the impending dangers of a looming crisis cost 33 deaths, 2779 homes, 17m hectares and over 1b animals.
In Britain, the Government’s catastrophic failure to heed repeated warnings from experts about the impending dangers of a looming crisis cost the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe, currently standing at 37,460.
The biggest scandal right now should be that 1 in every 1,000 Britons has died because of this pandemic. We have the highest death toll in Europe because of a delayed lockdown, and that is on Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and the whole Conservative Government.
— Owen Jones says join a union🌹 (@OwenJones84) May 26, 2020
In both cases, senior administration figures have refused to take any responsibility.
Congratulations Dominic, you really do symbolise everything this country has become.