Yesterday, despite attempts to kick the 10 Downing Street party investigation into the hands of the Metropolitan Police and thus delay the bad news yet further, brought another bad Parliamentary day for alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Such was Bozo’s desperate barrel scraping that, despite being advised not to smear Labour leader Keir Starmer, he did just that. And the whole Labour front bench, too.
Why a Tory PM playing the Savile card is not a wise move
Enough of Sue Gray’s report had been published for anyone who read it to know that there had been a serious lack of principled behaviour in and around 10 Downing Street while the rest of the country was in lockdown. Twelve gatherings that took place during those months had “
reached the threshold for Police investigation”, including at least three where Bozo just happened to be present. Starmer wasted no time reminding him of this detail.
So how did Bozo counter the attacks on his lack of integrity? Having briefed the media that he would be saying sorry, and saying it a lot, what would a Prime Minister with brain properly engaged have done before opening his North and South? What would a sensible PM have done to rally his party behind him? What would Nietzsche have done?
But Bozo is not a sensible PM,
and so off he went: “
the report does absolutely nothing to substantiate the tissue of nonsense that he has said … Instead this leader of the opposition, a former director of public prosecution - who used his time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile, as far as I can see - he chose to use this moment to continually pre-judge a police inquiry”. Ah, the old Savile smear ploy!
Sadly, as Paul Waugh from the
i Paper pointed out, “
Extraordinary low blow at [Keir Starmer] from [Boris Johnson], giving Parliamentary credence to the false online smear about Starmer not prosecuting Jimmy Savile. It's just not true. And surely the PM knows it?” He helpfully cited the Reuters fact check debunking the claim [
HERE].
And Bozo’s target audience was not impressed, as Sebastian Payne of the
FT noted: “
I think it’s fair to say Boris Johnson’s Jimmy Saville reference is not going down well with Tory MPs. ‘Totally outrageous’ one says”. Then, as Jon Worth observed, it got worse. “
A MP, Labour [Luke Pollard] asks Johnson if there were any drug taking at Downing Street. Johnson says he should direct the question at the Labour front bench”.
So, as Eleni Courea summed up, “
During this debate Boris Johnson has accused Keir Starmer of failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile and the Labour front bench of taking drugs”. To which James Ball added “
Again, a reminder that this is supposed to be the bit where the prime minister apologised to the House - they briefed he would say ‘sorry’ a lot - and tried to start drawing a line under all this. That is very much not what happened”.
Adam Bienkov of
Byline Times concluded “
So in summary Boris Johnson’s response to the Sue Gray report has been to: - Repeat a far-right smear associating the leader of the opposition with a paedophile - Accuse the Labour front bench of being on drugs - Talk about freeports”. As Steve Bray might have said, it’s not going very well, is it?
Yet the right-leaning part of our free and fearless press continues to shill for Bozo, clinging to the idea that a mythical Good Old Boris will return. The reality is that, as Starmer told the Commons, that Bozo just damages all around him.
Including all those cheerleaders.
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9 comments:
Smarmer was DPP when savile was investigated.
...He was DPP when both Damien grope and Michael green were not prosecuted - despite the met actually having the backbone to have publicly stated shapps' actions "May have constituted fraud"
Nor did he prosecute Jean Charles de Menezes'and Ian Tomlinson's killers (Met police).
The buck stops with him.
I'm in NO WAY defending de piffle, bit you're fucked if you think I'm gonna accept thst keef smarmer isn't responsible for not prosecuting savile - as well as the rest mentioned.
Even party apparatchik and speak-your-weight machine Dominic “Paddleboard” Raabid has gone on record as saying Bloody Stupid Johnson's claim cannot be substantiated.
The only worthwhile moment yesterday was Blackford telling the truth to that gang of lying thieving charlatans on all sides.
The only difference between Bozo the Clown and Starmer the Quiff Quisling is that the former is blue and the latter is red.
Parliament is a far right one party soap opera of tenth rate yahboo factions. None of it is worth more than a bucket of warm spit.
Toffee. Read Reuters chapter and verse on how prosecution works mate. Starmer may be a lily livered puppet in most areas, but even I know he is not responsible for failure to prosecute Savile. Loads of others were complicit but felt helpless. Senior BBC management turned a blind eye as did staff at Stoke Mandevill. Savile was a suspected paedophile for decades but elevated as some sort of national treasure in a shell suit; a kind of reverse snobbery, gaining approval from Margaret Thatcher. I loathe Starmer. But Johnson misled the House deliberately, to deflect attention for his own crimes and misdemeanors. The appalling ad weak speaker Lindsey Hoyle who sent the SNP leader packing for saying Johnson misled the House on Partygate, should have made him apologise. Brig back Bercow.
@Toffee
For once Boris was telling the truth. He did not make the allegation that Starmer personally intervened to save Savile, merely that Starmer was in charge (like at No 10?). However, it is ridiculous to assume the the head of the CPS should take an interest in the prosecution of someone nobody had ever heard of with no important connections at, say, Downing Street.
That image of Savile and Thatcher.....easy to see how Savile became a necrophiliac.
Whilst comments about Corbyn came from a grain, sometimes just a grain, of truth, these ones are absurd and should never have been said.
I am a playwright. Words matter. This should never have been said.
I'll believe Craig Murray before I believe any tory - blue, red, yellow, orange or green.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
I wish people would at lest go back and read the 2 reports into Savile that cost a fortune to compile. I'm no Starmer fan but the DPP were never involved in even contemplating the Savile matter as investigating police decided there was not enough credible evidence (at the time) to present to the DPP. The police dropped the matter, not the DPP who only act on what evidence is presented to them by police.
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