The Daily Mail Jan Moir said we were all supposed to be in it together, except those in the ‘crony-demic gang.’ “Dish it out, but don’t take it, whatever happens! Your country needs you to do exactly as you are told,” she said. “While the elites continue to do exactly as they please. Michael Gove flew to Portugal for a football match but dodged quarantine upon his return by taking part in a secret swabbing trial. “How marvellous that Downing Street was chosen as one of the workplaces to trial this new scheme that no one has ever heard of.”
We are all in it together.
That has been the official refrain since the early days of the pandemic, back when we first squared our shoulders, started stockpiling loo rolls and began spying on our neighbours with vigour, thermal binoculars and a time-stamped electronic notebook to hand.
Or was that just me?
And we are still all in it together except when it comes to the last packet of pasta on the supermarket shelf.
Or non-observance of curfews when no one is looking.
Or, above all, being a government minister and/or adviser.
Today, being a member of the crony-demic gang seems to mean that you can ignore all of the rules all of the time, even the ones you have devised yourself.
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