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Tuesday 28 June 2016

Murdoch Backs Boris

The manoeuvring for pole position in the race to be the next Tory leader is well and truly under way, despite the country having been needlessly piloted into Shit Creek by someone who has then dispensed with the paddles. So who, among those prepared to put themselves forward to become the Prime Minister charged with triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty (or maybe not), is likely to emerge victorious?
That's what I bladdy think of youse bladdy Tory Party bladdy democracy, ya bastard Pommie drongoes!

One thing the Tory Party has always been good at is surviving more or less in one piece. It is, after all, the party of the establishment, and the establishment needs no advice or assistance when it comes to looking after itself. That survival instinct has taken hold in the last 48 hours with the realisation that London’s formerly very occasional Mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson wants the job, and has a good chance of getting it.
An utter Muppet. And Elmo from Sesame Street

Bozza, as I’ve told previously, is an ocean going liar of no discernible principle. He was a complete disaster as Mayor of London, something that will become all the more obvious with the passage of time. His serial dishonesty has seen him sacked from two jobs, one of them within the Tory Party. He cannot be trusted with either women or money. He is appallingly thin skinned. In a negotiation with EU leaders he would be eaten alive.
So the Tories who - rightly - do not consider Bozza leadership material have rallied automatically to the standard of Home Secretary Theresa May. Ms May has said some distinctly off-colour things about human rights, but unlike Bozza is able to treat the business of politics seriously. She is a good listener, does not shirk from taking the tough decisions, and has shown herself to be sensitive and pragmatic.
Who is this "we" of whom he speaks?

So that’s it, is it? Just down to Tory MPs and the party membership? Ah, but if only it were that simple. As with so many aspects of our political life, there has to be someone else ready to stick his bugle in. Yes, the new Tory leader has also to pass muster with one Rupert Murdoch. Don Rupioni is not a British citizen, and never has been. He does not have a vote in our elections. But he wants to tell us how to run our country.
And far too many politicians, from Margaret Thatcher on, have been more than willing to indulge him. They wouldn’t entertain that kind of behaviour in Brussels - that’s why Rupe is so opposed to the EU. So who would he favour as Tory leader? Not Ms May. He would rather like Michael “Oiky” Gove to stand, not least because Gove is a Murdoch man through and through. But Gove does not want to stand.
So, as Newsnight’s Ian Katz has discovered, Murdoch’s next preferred candidate is Bozza, and thus the ultimate corruption of our political system. An Australian-born United States citizen, without the vote in this country, is able to lean on a major political party to appoint as leader - and, as it is currently the party of Government, Prime Minister - his preferred candidate, someone who is dangerously unsuited to be let near the seals of office.

That encapsulates the sickness of British politics. An interfering foreigner is looking to install his own puppet Prime Minister. And the Tory Party might just let him do it.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Just one observation - taken from The Guardian's politics live blog today:



14:12

Rupert Murdoch has called the British vote to leave the EU “wonderful” and described Donald Trump a “very able man” in remarks made in London on Tuesday...

...In a sign that Boris Johnson may not win immediate backing for any future campaign, Murdoch said if he backtracked on promises made during the campaign on serious things, presumably like immigration, this would trigger “another bloody revolt”.


http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/28/brexit-live-cameron-eu-leaders-brussels-corbyn-confidence?page=with:block-5772775be4b0cea1d7b04ad8#block-5772775be4b0cea1d7b04ad8

Sounds to me like additional positioning against the likes of Hannan-ites and free-traders like the Adam Smith Institute (who are all currently trying to line up an EEA-style deal that permits free movement) and who recoil at an economically distanced UK.

Are we, in fact, looking at a man who has been playing a 35-year long game to break up the United Kingdom?

Anonymous said...

Boris "Hermann Goering" Johnson as tory leader?

"Murdoch supports Johnson"?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! You don't say? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Except sooner rather than later NOBODY will be laughing because he'll be just another Bullingdon Pig's Head public school disaster for the nation. The divisions will widen even faster, attacks on our most vulnerable citizens will intensify, racism and xenophobia will increase and warmongering will loom large yet again.

People can't say there have been no warnings that the man is a dangerous buffoon, the very worst of everything wrong British politics.

Anonymous said...

Yep the old croke finally has his very own Republic of Banana!

George Osbourne said...

Good evening.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for holding my Brexit speech very early on Monday morning.

I knew it was a good idea and I couldn't resist the urge to avoid those scoundrels at Sun HQ.
They would never surface that early unless they have shat the bed.

Or, they need to hide in a bush.

Andrew Curry said...

In other news, I understand that the Pope has just confirmed he is Catholic, bears discuss toilet arrangements etc.