Let's play accountable or not accountable...
Those being held accountable today, and those not.
Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal duties, his military titles, and being “His Royal Highness” to defend rape charges as a private citizen. Imagine that, being held accountable as if a regular human being.
Andrew has a particular difficulty in defending the charge in that everyone who has ever heard his Pizza Express, sweating disorder, interview on the matter thinks he is guilty beyond question. It would make for the shortest ever conclusion to a round of the British program “Would I lie to you?”
Boris Johnson stands in parliament stating that he didn’t realize his party, in his garden, that he invited people to bring a bottle to, was in fact a party. A defense so absurd John Key would have been proud of it. So preposterous it enabled the woeful Keir Starmer to briefly look like a viable leader of the opposition.
Both of these men have been born so far above accountability that they think they can get away with these farcical defenses – with good reason. Surprisingly, of the two the one who will likely end up being held accountable is the chap formerly known as Prince.
To be fair to Boris breaking Covid gathering rules is a vastly lesser crime than Andrew’s sexual assault charge. However when you also consider one hundred and fifty thousand dead people under Boris’ Covid leadership perhaps there are more important matters he should be held accountable for than a lock-down soiree, treason perhaps?
Speaking of treason, and now more than a year since the armed insurrection at the Capitol, it looks like Donald Trump will continue to receive his lifelong non-accountability get-out-of-jail-free treatment. It must be hard on Andrew to see fellow friend of Epstein, and boaster of sexual assaults, remain scott-free.
Meanwhile back here the tabloids, and pantomime villain Chris Bishop, seem to think the Prime Minister should be accountable because her partner received a phone call from musicians at a chemist trying to get a rapid antigen test. Something Chris Bishop has advocated they should have been able to get.
Ah, how lucky are we that the height of corruption in Aotearoa, at least that seemingly of lasting interest to our media, is someone phoning a friend to try and find out more quickly if they have Covid.
Of course there are many who should be held accountable in this country right now. For example the anti vax nuts spitting on the council windows in Tākaka and then writing slogans in their own saliva in protest at the proof of vaccination requirement to use the library.
To be honest I hadn’t imagined that a lack of access to libraries would cause much of a change in lifestyle to anti vaxers. Punish them - make them go to a library and then write a book report, on a non-fiction work. Oh and make them clean the windows, the dirty buggers.
Perhaps Christopher Luxon could hold Harete Hipango accountable for attending another ant vax rally, maybe with an expectation that she had learned after the first one?
I’m joking of course; while those on the right may be very passionate about accountability, it should be noted that accountability is for OTHER people.