Raab is to step down at the next election. While all the focus has been on "bullying" there has been no outcry over his politicisation of the parole process.

He personally had a say in all decisions made by this formerly independent body; decisions on whether long term prisoners should progress to open conditions or be released.

He introduced a new "public confidence" test which he ultimately determined himself. Because he is The Public. He had bullet point breakdowns of every decision made sent to his desk. At which he would exercise not the wisdom of Solomon but the masses.

The result has been a log jam in the system, empty beds all over the open estate, and any non-determinate sentence prisoner likely to attract media interest on release being refused release - regardless of the expert views of the board or efforts of the prisoner to change.

This is why he should have gone.

And Starmer should have stepped down years ago - over his failure to question this or anything else he sees as a vote loser.

For failing to fulfill his role, which is not actually to do anything - by act or omission - in order to get elected so that he can go to his grave having been a Prime Minister. But to scrutinise the Government and offer meaningful alternatives to the electorate.

These are the same motives and failures that drive Raab and the majority of our politicians today. On the whole, integrity has been utterly lost.

And the media assist by focusing not on the integrity of the parole process, the treatment of children fleeing war zones to these shores, or wasting billions on unnecessary PPE.

But on Raab shouting at people, Stella speeding and Boris eating cake during lockdowns. And they do this because the somnolent population prefer these stories to thinking.

Starmer had a party whilst pushing for tougher restrictions and Hancock chasing skirt around the office.

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Starmer had a party whilst pushing for tougher restrictions and Hancock chasing skirt around the office.

And they will be remembered as failing for these reasons, not for allowing many thousands to die unnecessarily through lockdown measures because they put their fucking careers before the welfare of the people.