Do not become inured to the sight of blood - Roberta Metsola
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Habitual exposure to anything, however unpleasant it may be, renders one to become accustomed to it, as is the case with casualty personnel and the sight of blood. Our society is now facing the same situation. We are fast becoming immune to daily revelationDo not become inured to the sight of blood - Roberta Metsola
Habitual exposure to anything, however unpleasant it may be, renders one to become accustomed to it, as is the case with casualty personnel and the sight of blood. Our society is now facing the same situation. We are fast becoming immune to daily revelations of corruption, government handouts to party loyalists, including handing over public land worth millions for peanuts, multiple jobs to the same individuals and an in-your-face ‘we shall because we can’ attitude, which has no respect for any norms and laws. It is an established practice worldwide that ministers and politically exposed persons (PEPs) accept that they must live according to strict codes of conduct, and submit themselves to intrusive and uncomfortable levels of scrutiny. And yet, five years of constant, escalating scandals, of standards slipping so far and so fast that you can’t even see them anymore, have seemingly numbed our sensibilities, so that what was once unacceptable, is now fatalistically shrugged away by far too many. Since Labour took over power, their actions were never casual. They were always casual. The civil service was decapitated the morning after the election, with many permanent secretaries... Read more