Rutnam and All That

Rutnam and All That

The story broke on Saturday with Rutman standing under an umbrella in the rain making his political point prompting a cynical comment that it was ‘a wet avoid the wet ‘!!

3 days in and it appears to be dying and coronavirus is more important to the public than a civil service tiff >not sure the public ever had much sympathy with Rutman

Anti Boris MSM are trying hard to make it run but Corbyn and his MPs did not give any impetus to that in Parliament>watching it was quite boring and very repetitious and Labour MPs did not look as though their heart was in trying to get a scalp! Actually it could be that the current runt of Labour MPs are not very inspiring or capable of making a contest out of issues such as this

The probability is that the fall out was six of one and half a dozen of the other with both sides briefing on each other but the general consensus is that the Home Office [not the Minister] is not fit for purpose, has been that way for some time, and Patel was sent in to sort it out

If so then flack was expected by the Government hence the complete laid back approach. In due course we will be told that whilst the Minister was inpolite she was not in breach of the code. Rutman is paid out and on we go!

Basically, who cares about a civil servant who doesn’t like the government policy which the electorate has soundly endorsed!

A cynic may say that Boris has been lucky again as coronavirus has taken everything off the front pages and the minds of the electorate

Some of the commentators I follow, who have been Boris Bashers and have not yet recovered from his landslide victory which they thought impossible , have had a last fling on this and hopefully they will also move on ! Normally, which is why I follow them, their views are interesting and relatively objective

So Rutnam has not even be a seven day wonder!