These are desperate times for the Government. The narrative that Boris is in control of a Country going through a national crisis is still being pumped out through every medium possible.
The truth is the Conservatives are anything but in control and to everyone outside the establishment bubble it certainly shows.
The ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests, the trashing of statues and the far-right response last weekend have shown how weak the Government UK political leaders really are.
Events have exposed the truth that senior politicians and the Police answer directly to mob opinion or the loudest voices that the media gives airtime to.
The regrettable truth is that we are at the mercy of whimsical leaders who are not leading but are themselves being led.
Distraction is one of the key chapters of the political playbook that the current Westminster culture relies on. So, it was perhaps inevitable that Boris would start pulling white rabbits out of the hat so he could start telling everyone that he is once again ‘getting the job done’.
Boris has identified that the problem for him to solve is systemic racism in Government and the Public Sector. He has launched a Commission or race equality inquiry, even though like most politicians, he is unlikely to be consciously aware of the cause.
The hard realty that we must face is that if we go looking for racism in Government and the Public Sector, is it will be found as sure as night meets day.
Yet what we are being pushed to accept as racism by the media and by activists is not all that it seems.
We are being sent on a witch hunt for a prejudice that in its most basic form simply does not exist.
All that Boris will achieve by setting up this Commission is give legitimacy to a dangerous yet widespread whim. One that has power to deliver a solution that has nothing to do with the cause.
Commissions and consultative instruments that the Public Sector use have outcomes and solutions that are all too often designed before they have even been launched.
The upshot of what will inevitably be an expensive project will see newsworthy recommendations made and a series of measures implemented, championed as a breakthrough result for all those concerned.
Yet all the Inquiry will really achieve is the creation of more measures and regulations. Making jobs more difficult, creating more distrust and furthering the resentment that many have about so-called rights and diversity measures that sow greater levels of division between people rather than addressing the very issues that they were created to resolve.
Racism exists throughout Government and the Public Sector as part of a much wider problem within society that the rights and measures that were created to address have ended up making even worse.
Laws, regulations and processes cannot address and overcome the way that people think subconsciously. They will not address the many prejudices that exist not only within the workplace but across life itself.
To address racism and all innate prejudices effectively, every one of us would have to become self-aware at a very enlightened level. Nothing less.
Regrettably, there will always be those who use that awareness to further their own cause.
Intelligence used without love and consideration for our fellow man is not intelligent at all.
The only way to begin to address the racism we experience as people being held back from jobs, opportunities and the basic human decency that we all deserve in any situation is for there to be top-to-bottom reform.
Leaders must lead and demonstrate by example how we all should really behave.
Only then will people begin to think differently about the people around them and the interactions that they have.
Legislation and rule books have their uses. But unless people consider them respectfully and accept that they are there to benefit everyone in every sense, there will always be those who look for and will find the ways around them. They will hide their prejudices in plain sight whilst proclaiming that they are furthering this right or that cause.
The upshot of what Politicians are doing in response to the protests and the momentum of Black Lives Matter, is to keep themselves in power and live to blag their way through and make excuses for their inaction and ineptitude on another day.
Until we have changed the political system and removed the cuckoos who sit within democracy’s nest, we will never be able to begin the process of dealing with the real inequalities that the British People face.
To do that, this Government and the Parties of power must be replaced.
Adam Tugwell 