Jonathan Gullis Is An Idiot

One might have thought that Members of Parliament, rewarded annually with around £86,000 of public funds, would spend every waking hour working tirelessly on behalf of their constituents. But that thought appears to have been misplaced when considering Jonathan Gullis, who for some reason was elected in the Stoke-on-Trent North constituency in 2019.

An MP, but maybe not for long, versus ...

Since then, his catalogue of mis-steps, documented on his Wiki entry, has made for lamentable reading. He claimed that research into the Royal Navy’s links to slavery was "leftwing ideological nonsense”. He co-signed a letter accusing the National Trust of being "coloured by cultural Marxist dogma, colloquially known as the 'woke' agenda”. Dishonest use of anti-Semitic trope.

He suggested at a fringe meeting during the Conservative Party conference that people using the term "white privilege" should be reported to the Home Office as extremists and that teachers found criticising the Conservative Party should be sacked. He called Black Lives Matter “a Marxist organisation”.

And he claimed that his constituents were “flabbergasted that the woke, wet and wobbly lot opposite are on the side of their lefty woke warriors, who are making sure these rapists and paedophiles remain in this United Kingdom, rather than standing up for the British people and their safety”. But at least he removed himself from Twitter, X, or whatever Muskrat is calling it this week. Sadly, he returned to the platform last month to spread more idiocy.

Having fewer than 2,000 Twitter followers, he went after someone with rather more. And so it came to pass that Gullis picked a scrap with Match Of The Day lead presenter Gary Lineker. “Gary can you tell us when you plan to demand the release of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas?Just when I searched your X feed, the word ‘hostages’ came up with no results”.

... a presenter, maybe for rather longer

Unfortunately, as more than one respondent pointed out, Gullis’ own feed had only one instance of “hostages” - guess where. Sadly, he wasn’t finished. “I know you once said Hamas are ‘truly awful’ in a reply to someone on X, but seeing as you are not bound by the same rules others in the BBC are, would you be willing to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ like everyone else?”

Er, I’m sorry, this is irrelevant? Former England Rugby man Brian Moore put the question Gullis is yet to answer: “I know it is difficult, but you do have to make up your mind on this. Should he stick to football, or is he allowed to say whatever he wants about whatever he wants? If the former, why are you asking this? If the latter, why have you accused him of rule breaking?”.

But the MP has taken the Daily Mail on trust, whining plaintively “Yet another breach of the BBC’s impartiality rules by [Gary Lineker] But, sadly, spineless Tim Davie will do nothing about it, having surrendered to Lineker previously.” Not least because the Mail, which has whined about the presenter on its front page today, has in turn taken Gullis on trust and quoted him freely.

And all the while, as Gullis continues his pointless attacks, the electorate of Stoke-on-Trent North see less return on the £86,000 of public funds (plus expenses) paid to their MP. His constituents may be asking themselves about value for money come the next General Election, where The Great Man is predicted to lose his seat, and badly, whoever Labour’s candidate may be.

Maybe he’ll reappear as a pundit on GB News. If it’s still in business, that is.

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