Morning. On the Today programme (BBC Radio 4), the London Metropolitan Police are still saying “it’s a few bad apples” while admitting around 1,000 officers are being investigated for sexual assault. The UK government has decided to go for “men in skirts will invade women’s safe spaces” as a reason to block Scots self-ID legislation for trans folk. And nobody wants to discuss Nadim Zahwani’s failed attempt to avoid paying millions in tax which is not resulting in him being charged. Ugh.
@murphyslawyer
»A few bad apples« they say?
Well, yeah. That’s the problem;
it’s »one bad apple spoils the whole barrel.«
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/one-bad-apple-spoil-the-barrel-metaphor-phrase
#OneBadApple

@ospalh @murphyslawyer

And even if one didn't - A barrel with over a thousand bad apples is definitely wise to consider wholly spoilt. I feel like that's a classic case of fool me once, fool me twice, fool me one thousandth. Etc.