To no one's surprise (least of all mine, although I have had emails from BBC staff…), not one of the issues that I listed was mentioned much, if at all, during Newsnight's fawning "interview" with the BBC's preferred candidate for Prime Minister. Indeed, almost nothing was. It was like being back in the early days of Tony Blair.
That this 50-minute Party Political Broadcast was ever made is perfectly scandalous. But the Beeb's man has been shown over this summer to be, as if anyone hadn't already known him to be, a vacuous, lightweight figure, and one, moreover, without a conservative bone in his body. So Auntie dutifully came to what she clearly thought was the rescue of her new favourite nephew.
Of course, because she only knows Eurofederalists, she doubtless thought that she was doing him a favour by allowing him to demonstrate (not that it is in any way news) just how rabid a Eurofederalist he is.
But there was no mention of Cameron's membership of a criminal conspiracy, complete with membership lists, officers, a uniform, the lot, specifically for the purpose of smashing up pubs, not to mention of assaulting publicans and their staff.
Nor of the Tories' plan to hand over control over great swathes of life in designated ghettoes to wholly self-appointed local Muslim, Hindu and Sikh leaders in return for getting out the vote for the Bullingdon Boys.
Nor of the fact that the oppression of the black and white English-speaking working class that this will entail is already being experienced in Wales, and is being seriously mooted both in Northern Ireland and in the North of Scotland.
Nor of whether or not Cameron, with his Scots background and his house on the Isle of Jura, would use the power of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to enact legislation in all policy areas applicable in all parts of this Kingdom.
Nor of just how few members the Conservative Party (like the others) now has, and just how old most of them now are (again, like the others).
Nor of how many people are now determined not to vote.
Nor of the fact that the specific Tories who have done well in Local Elections are as un-Cameroon as anyone could possibly be, these being manifestly the sort of Tories for whom people will vote if they are ever going to vote Tory at all.
Among many, many, many other things...
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"I have had emails from BBC staff"
ReplyDeleteYes, but then you deleted it. Why?
Did I? My mistake.
ReplyDeleteI've had several such emails as well, though...
I saw John's original comment. I thought he was just being facetious and patronising. David probably did, too. Was he being?
ReplyDeleteJohn, is this the Beeb trying to make peace with/co-opt this blogger, who is read by relatively few people but by all the right ones? I hope so.
ReplyDeleteDavid is older and better than the neocon twinks Douglas Murray and Johan Hari, even if even he isn't as posh. And they seem to be on Radio 4, especially, morning, noon and night.
David would certainly liven up Thought for the Day or the panel of The Moral Maze. And a few appearences on Question Time and Any Quesions wouldn't go amiss, since he's at least no less obscure than some of the people who have been on them recently.
We're not going to co-opt anyone. But the idea of David as a panellist is interesting, and I'll try and put a good word in.
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