‘Sick date-rape joke is proof Home Secretary James Cleverly has to go’
Date-rape medication aren’t any laughing matter. And because the Cabinet Minister accountable for legislation and order, James Cleverly ought to perceive that higher than most.
For the Home Secretary to joke about giving Rohypnol to his spouse, on the identical day his division publicizes a crackdown on drink spiking, was not simply crass and insensitive. It calls into query his health for the excessive workplace with which he has been entrusted.
Campaigners for more durable date-rape legal guidelines are rightly appalled and asking whether or not Mr Cleverly takes the very important activity of preventing crime critically sufficient. Preventing violence towards ladies and ladies can be a part of his remit. Jokes similar to this undermine their confidence in him.
Mr Cleverly has already proven he isn’t very intelligent along with his mouth, having in contrast each his personal Government’s Rwanda coverage and the city of Stockton to excrement. All this calls into query Rishi Sunak’s judgement in appointing him within the first place.
But to stoop to a gag about somewhat Rohypnol not being unlawful ought to make the PM mirror over Christmas on whether or not one other reshuffle is likely to be on the playing cards. Mr Cleverly has clearly chosen the incorrect profession. Sick jokes are for stand-up comedians, not for many who sit around the Cabinet desk. However farcical the present lot could appear.
The worst Noel
This Christmas shall be particularly bleak for many who are counting on the help of charities to get them by it. Rising costs imply extra individuals are in want of assist and charities set as much as present it are too overwhelmed to manage.
It is breaking the hearts of those that run them to say that, this Christmas, there actually is not any room on the inn. Families are so hard-up that just about one in six of us don’t anticipate to obtain presents this 12 months and plenty of will have fun Christmas within the chilly as a result of heating payments are so excessive.
Even Macmillan Cancer Support has needed to lower grants to sufferers desperately wanting money by £50 as a result of requests are up by 1 / 4. That is each a tragedy and a scandal for a rustic which has the proud boast of being the sixth-largest economic system on the planet.
Mr Sunak has confirmed 2024 shall be election 12 months. It is the very best information we may ask for. It means voters can inform him there is no such thing as a room in No10 for him both.
A time of hope
What a 12 months, eh? The Tories have spent most of it squabbling amongst themselves reasonably than attempting to finish the cost-of-living disaster. But Christmas is a time for hope.
So, for the following few days, let’s put our troubles behind us to take pleasure in some high quality time with family members. We want a contented, peaceable and restful Christmas to you all.
