It's time once again for the miscreants, mountebanks and maniacs. The irrespressible and the irredeenable. It's not totally serious, it's not totally silly, but it is my nominations for the Worst Person Of The Day.
The bronze medal goes to Newsquest for an article that I saw on the Falmouth Packet website, called How To Unlock Supermarket Trolleys without £1, but they obviously didn't think what they were writing, because just before they shared the tip that you can use 2 20p coins instead of a pound coin, they wrote... "As the use of cash declines while contactless payments rises, shoppers who forget to bring a coin for the trolley are faced with having to cram everything into a small basket." Yeah, I think if somebody isn't using cash any more, they're unlikely to have 2 20p coins. By the way, a tip of my own, for less than the pound coin, you can buy trolley tokens which if you don't keep cash on you anymore, you can use those to access your trolley. And you don't necessarily have to pay cash for them either...
The silver goes to Conservative MP for Delyn, Rob Roberts, who is reportedly facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour. BBC Wales has seen messages sent to an intern inviting her to "fool around" with him. He's also admitted to asking out another House Of Commons employee, who as a result ended up moving to a new post. The party has described his actions as completely inappropriate and confirmed the matter is under investigation. He's only been an MP since December 2019, so it's nice to see he's learned the ropes so quickly... 😒
But for our winner we're going international, to New Zealand and National Party MP for Rangitata, Andrew Falloon, well, he was a National Party MP, he's resigned from the New Zealand parliament and from politics, effective immediately. The reason for his resignation, he'd admitted that he'd sent a pornographic image to a 19 year old woman. Ah, this is so refreshing to see. Apparently, according to National Party leader Judith Collins, this was so egregious that they didn't even want to wait until September's upcoming General Election in the country, they wanted rid of him now, and so he's gone. This reminds me of the dim and distant past of British Politics, when politicians resigned over things they should resign about, When was that? Oh yeah, before Brexit!
Andrew "Bye Felicia" Falloon, the Worst Person Of The Day.
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