Temptation is a full platter
To one of my closest
friends, I would usually say, we all have needs. The fact that we forget that
we are human with all our inadequacies and frailties is sometimes evident in
the way we judge or prejudge others. Now, I am not advocating a race to the
bottom of moral rectitude and the absence of integrity, but there is a reason
why in the Lord’s Prayer, there is a line, ‘Lead us not into temptation.’
Temptation is always
there as an easy distraction from what we should be doing. We are prone and
primed to yield to temptation but for other factors of self-awareness,
discipline, the consideration of others in needing to be careful rather than
carefree and careless.
Men in power with the
trappings of it are sometimes insulated from scrutiny in what they are allowed
or what they think they can get away with. Audacity and hypocrisy are stock in
trade of the people who lead our country today.
The examples of
sleaze
There is no virtue they
have not overturned with impunity as they forget that power is transient, it is
their time now, it will pass. Pass into history and on the coattails, I fear of
ignominy.
Affairs and adultery
used to be untenable with regards to those holding high office, but we now have
a permissiveness that has no moral guardrails, ministers lie with no pang of
conscience, they fulminate on the acts of others with a complete lack of
reflection on themselves. It is really one rule for them and another for us. We
are to do as they intend and say, but we must never hold them accountable for
their example, for they have none to show.
On the matter of the
Secretary of State for Health having an affair, even if he consequently resigns
it would not be a turning point towards a course of integrity in Boris Johnson’s
cabinet, because the Prime Minister himself is not of the standing where he can
honestly demand a resignation. Meanwhile, one can only wonder at the
unfortunate public spectacle on the women involved, the lady in the affair and
the dreadful Tory life or a Tory wife.
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