The know-nothing club
Green party ministers John Gormless and Aimin Low have stated that they weren’t informed of the huge hush fund proposed for jet-setter, first-class flyer and retiring FARCE boss Roddy Molloy before it was announced by their cabinet colleagues.
There is an old principle in the Common Law, much praised by the seventeenth-century jurist Selden, called ignoratio legis hauc excusat – ignorance of the law is no excuse. So what our green-by-politics green-by-nature ministers are trying to plead is ignorance of the crime, I don’t think that will carry much weight. Another defence that they might run is duress. “Had we objected we’d be annihilated. They’re bigger than us – we were a human shield – they made us do it, honest.” If they pull out of government and the Feel ‘n Fallers don’t throw in their miserable lot with their political soul-mates the blueshirts, the Greens face into a general election from which few of them might emerge. Even the most optimistic Green now accepts that opinion poll findings of Green party support are low enough to be categorised as a statistical margin of error. What’s more, most of those people who say they are going to vote Green next time are doing so for a bet.
What a bunch of petty, miserable people comprise our government. There’s another suitable adjective – dysfunctional.
So the Green ministers knew nothing, something that can’t be said about Roddy Molloy.
