Re: Branding

All 16 of their body cameras malfunctioned as Israeli policemen branded the Star of David onto the face of a Palestinian whom they had kidnapped from Shuafat. Shuafat was built as a camp for refugees from, among other places, Lydda, also called Lod, the birthplace and resting place of Saint George, whose flag is ubiquitous in support of the Lionesses, whom I, too, support wholeheartedly.

To side with Rachel Riley on anything is to side with this branding, and with everything else like it, while to remain neutral is to be complicit. There is therefore a moral and political obligation to side with Mason Greenwood, who is certainly of the same sex as the branded Palestinian or the uproar would be audible even to the London media, who is probably of much the same age, and who is of a much more similar colour to him than Riley is.

If the widely circulated recording of Greenwood and his alleged accuser had been verifiable, then the Crown Prosecution Service would have proceeded against him with a firm expectation of success, although that circulation and the comment on it could have been argued to have prejudiced the trial. It is demonstrably a fake.

Greenwood does not "deserve a second chance". He is still on his first chance. He should never have been suspended on the basis of mere allegation, a pernicious practice that the Rileys of the world are now trying to impose even on Parliament, in order to empower the likes of Jess Phillips to get rid of any MP whom they wished to replace with someone else of their own choosing through the tightly controlled selection processes in all parties.

What "outcry" from the fans has there been at the prospect of Greenwood's reinstatement? Apart from a demonstration by fewer than half a dozen people but which managed to put one of them on Newsnight, then any such has occurred entirely on Twitter, and it has been centred on the gameshow glamourous assistant who has somehow become the Tsarina Regnant, complete with acts of vicious savagery by her boot boys, such as the branding of her mark onto the faces of her enemies.

Did Vanna White grace the American people with her opinions? Did Isla St Clair pass such comment in Britain? Of course, they would have been perfectly entitled to have done so. But how much weight would have been attached to their utterances? Riley's, on the other hand, are treated with the deference that she has therefore come to expect. Or else. Stand against this. Stand with Mason Greenwood.