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Saturday 10 September 2022

Dan Wootton’s Royal Smear

So farewell then Queen Elizabeth The Second: the monarch had looked terribly frail when she met outgoing alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his successor Liz Truss earlier in the week, but the speed at which the end came on Thursday still took many by surprise.

Creeps gonna creep

Not surprising enough, though, for the self-promoting part of our free and fearless press and broadcast media to move effortlessly to leverage the death of our longest-reigning head of state for their own ends, and indeed to pursue their own obsessions and hatreds. And when it comes to obsession and hatred, few can hold a candle to the singularly repellent Dan Wootton.

Wootton, now a top rating host at Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”), shares an overriding obsession with former Screws and Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan: the Sussexes. Whatever Haz and Megs get up to is, by definition, wrong. Desperate Dan has willingly joined in the vicious, vindictive and unremitting campaign to break the Duchess.

The evening before the Queen passed away, he was in full cry, as the GB News Twitter feed told: “Dan Wootton urges Prince Harry to drop plans and visit the Queen at Balmoral: ‘If he had a shred of dignity’”. Even before the death was announced, he kept going: “Harry and Meghan are making this all about themselves when the Queen is ill. I actually think if Harry had a shred of dignity he would drop today's event, leave Frogmore Cottage and go to see the Queen at Balmoral”. Harry was, in fact, on his way.

Which Wootton then sort of acknowledged. “Harry and Meghan are now also travelling to Balmoral to be by the Queen’s side”. Except she wasn’t: William had gone alone; Harry had to follow suit. But having recognised that Haz was on his way to Balmoral, the original Tweet was not amended or deleted.

And then it was on to his Mail Online column for Wootton to continue shamelessly leveraging the Queen’s death in order to pursue his creepy obsession. “If the Queen's life has taught us one thing it is that blood is thicker than water. The greatest tribute Prince Harry could pay to his grandmother is to reconcile with King Charles and Prince William”.

Evening all

But that assumes the King and his sons needed to be reconciled, which, from the King’s broadcast yesterday evening, suggests they did not, as Charles sent his love to Harry and Meghan, as they built their life overseas. Was that enough to silence Wootton, make him stop and think for just a moment, get him to back off and stop using the Queen’s death to promote Himself?

As if you need to ask. Out came the smearing iron: “A pitch perfect address to the nation by King Charles III. Vowed to move on from the issues he cares so deeply (translation: no more politics). Endorsed Wills and Kate as the Prince and Princess of Wales. Expressed his love to Harry and Meghan, even though they plan to trash him”. He just can’t help himself.

And, to be fair to Desperate Dan, nor can others in the Northcliffe House bunker, with “Royal Editor” Rebecca English also using the occasion of the Queen’s passing to lay into the Sussexes, making a series of claims about the Duchess that have been at best wildly exaggerated, and at worst contain a significant amount of falsehood and misinformation.

Such is their blind determination to trash the Sussexes, and to break the Duchess, that the right-leaning part of our media class is even prepared to use the Queen’s death as another means of attack. Senior editors and hacks see the falling sales figures, yet still imagine themselves to be in touch with the public mood, and carry on their campaign of vilification.

Much of Wootton’s social media feedback has been hostile, calling out his obsession. He may read it. He may not. But he has his instructions.


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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Any chance now of an elected head of state acting within a democratic constitution?

Literally not on your life, not in this Kingdom of Arslikhan.

iMatt said...

As someone who is not a monarchist, I cannot say I am in mourning for the Queen's passing. Not that I am doing a jig on her grave, metaphorically speaking. However, I am not grief stricken, as I did not know the woman.

Which brings me to Wootton and Moron. Why are they so obsessed with Harry and Meghan other than to revel in low level bigotry and lazy journalism? Why do they expect others to be as interested in a wealthy couple they don't know and never will?

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us said...

I suppose that Wooddon and Moron regard themselves as risqué journalists in the spirit of Voltaire rather than the sad inadequate hacks they are.

Mr Larrington said...

I am very glad to have learned of the deth of Missis Kwin from the driver of a Boeing 777 as he landed it, and me, in San Francisco. I am even gladder to learn that the funeral will be history by the time I get home.

Malcolm Armsteen said...

They may have been on our side during the Corbyn years, but Wooton and Morgan are now rapidly anti Starmer, and their less than jolly attitude to the Sussexes is an example of their vitriol.

Starmer can probably turn it around. But an anti establishment thing like him will cause ripples. Harry dared step outside it, however briefly.

Anonymous said...

Tuppenny shitster wooton … fuck off home to nz and see where yer poison gets yer

Anonymous said...

I thought we deported economic migrants?

Steve Woods said...

It was having to deal with the awfulness of both Johnson & Truss on the same day that probably finished Brenda off.

Anonymous said...

This could get complicated.

"Prince" Harry is fifth in line if a lethal disaster overturns the bucket of leeches in front of him. Which would make for some necessary interesting gymnastics by the Murdoch-Rothermere oligarchs and their glove puppets.

Meanwhile, get used to Charlie Windsor von Saxe-Coburg und Gotha. After him comes Willie Von Shtoop and his absurd glowing turkey teeth, then......ah, forget it.

Also meanwhile, an array of comic opera uniforms, forehead knucklers and arse lickers lining up to make utter servile twats of themselves.

Anonymous said...

Stop treating any of this ultra privileged pampered family as victims. They're not. They're protected by the state.

Andy McDonald said...

The various anonymous posters on here seem to have read not much aside from this blog (religiously) and 1984.

They might try reading the room.

Anonymous said...

The various "Andy McDonalds" on here might try reading outside their tiny box room. They might even realise 1984 has been with us since 1979.

That's what happens when you go along to get along. You actually get a nation with too many subservient creeps.