No. Not exactly.
Even if BoJo didn’t technically break his own law, he broke the spirit of it, approved punishment for ordinary people who attended smaller social gatherings during lockdown, and then lied, lied and lied again, apologising only when there was nowhere else to go. Comparisons with Prince Andrew as being part of ‘the arrogant, entitled elite’ are surely not unkind. A failure of leadership and moral standing if ever there was one.
So that’s the end of this blog then.
Well, not exactly.
Boris vs Starmer
Putin is about to invade the Ukraine. China is looking “to
become the world’s greatest superpower through predatory lending and business
practices, systematic theft of intellectual property, and brazen cyber
intrusions.”[i].
Meanwhile, the Biased Broadcasting Corporation and Keir Starmer (are they in bed
together, or what) are obsessed with whether BoJo drank wine or beer at a party
over a year ago.
Not exactly subjecting the ruling party to priority scrutiny in the urgent interests of our country, are they? They smell blood. Tory blood. Even better – Brexiteer-Tory blood. Boris’s head on a platter is far more important to them than the potential outbreak of World War III, or consistent and proportionate reporting of Covid statistics. Even John the Baptist’s fate was more defensible.
Oh, and similar accusations against Starmer himself haven’t attracted the same BBC-scrutiny. Why not? Because he isn’t a Tory.
Boris vs Djokovic
Last night on the 10 o’clock news, the BBC led with the story
of some boring guy who hits balls with bats for a living, who was refusing to
be vaccinated, surrounded himself with children when he had apparently tested
positive, and lied his way into a foreign country whose Covid-strategy is based
on keeping the virus out in the first instance.
Firstly, why does the BBC think this is more important than Russia massing troops against Ukraine? Could it be that the Beeb’s own army of Trotskyists thinks that this is just natural justice and what’s the fuss?
Secondly, the boring ball-bashing guy puts Boris’s crimes into perspective. Morally if not legally, the ball-guy should be put on trial for attempted mass murder whereas, while Boris might be a lying, hypocritical cheat, he leads a Government that has saved probably millions of lives with the UK’s vaccination programme, compared with Macron’s childish opposition to the Oxford jab that has resulted in many deaths across Europe.
Boris vs Harry
Another negative character trait of Boris’s, selfishness, is
unsurprising in a politician, and he’s not as myopically self-centred as many
others. Take Prince Harry, for example. (Yes. Please do. Take him away. Preferably
on Elon Musk’s rocket.) Breaking news this morning is the judicial review he’s
just launched against the Home Office refusal to allow him to personally pay
for police protection when he’s in the UK, claiming his private US security
team doesn’t have adequate jurisdiction abroad. He wants to personally fund
police protection so as "not to impose on the taxpayer".
I have a few questions about this: 1. How do other celebrities manage their security in the UK without police protection? 2. While he says he’s willing to pay for it all himself, I’m assuming it would be a helluva lot cheaper than paying private security firms to get the level of security he thinks he needs. Is that his motive? 3. While he says he doesn’t wish to impose on the taxpayer, he seems to forget that while Great British Bobbies are busy wiping his sorry wotsit, they’re unavailable for other duties, including catching bad buys intent on murder, rape and pillage. 4. And while he’s launching judicial reviews in UK courts, he’s distracting our legal system from getting to grips with much weightier issues such as murder, rape and pillage.
When it comes to self-interest, Harry is indeed his uncle’s nephew.
Boris vs The Rest of the World
In an ideal world, I do think Boris should fall on his sword
and allow someone else to take the reins. But who? Spend-spend-spend Sunak?
Build-build-build Truss? Knife-knife-knife Gove? Sunbathe-sunbathe-sunbathe
Raab? In-out-in-out-shake-it-all-about Patel? Love-me-love-my-aides Javid?
Captain Hindsight Starmer? The Lib-Dem chap – remind me who it is again?
Boris vs the BBC
Boris it is then. In any event, he got Brexit done and for
that I’ll forgive him most things. Plus he appointed Nadine Dorries as Culture
Secretary to oversee the BBC and its left-wing bias and anti-democratic
woke agenda. I’ve just read that she’s frozen the TV licence fee for two years
pending introduction of a new funding model. Attagirl, Nadine!
In case you haven’t got the message yet, I’m agreeing that the Beeb is right to criticise Boris’s behaviour over BYOB-gate, but they must be Accurate, Proportionate, and Balanced. Perhaps if the BBC were renamed the APB, it might remind them of their primary duty to this country. But being APB seems to be so not in their DNA.
Take another example of Beeb-bias and a topic dear to my heart. During a recent hyper-critical report on the water industry over sewage dumping, judge, jury and executioner-campaigner ex-punk rocker Feargal Sharkey was interviewed (actually, he was fawned over) by a BBC correspondent. Sharkey made a couple of outrageously inaccurate claims that went unchallenged by the Beeb. Neither did they interview anyone else who might have had a different point of view or be in possession of the facts. Yes sewage dumping is abhorrent. But telling and condoning bare-faced lies hinders a transparent debate towards the implementation of a corrective solution, so isn’t any higher up the moral scale.
Mind you, if the Beeb and others delivered better informed and balanced reports, I’d have to find something else to blog about. Or maybe I could try Tik-Tokking, whose mission is to “inspire creativity and bring joy.”
Errr…. TikTok is owned by the Chinese. ‘Nuff said. I’ll stick with blogging …
… and with Boris.
[i] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-china-threat
accessed 14 Jan 2022
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