It’s behind you! Oh no it isn’t! As the press pack crowd
together, totally abandoning any pretence at social distancing, but knowing full
well that their transgression will be ignored, they focus on the minutiae of
events of six weeks ago. Just like a pantomime plot, their aim couldn’t be more
transparent; harass and hound a man they hate until he snaps or is snapped. But
this man is not for snapping, it seems.
The Dominic Cummings hate industry has grown from being a
cottage affair to become a seething, polluted and festering metropolis; every broadcast ‘news’
outlet is Cumming 24-7. Confected outrage has been whipped up among the public
who, as ever, bark on command. Sitting here, working from home I hear, one
after another, callers to phone-in shows repeating the words the press have planted
in their clouded minds.
The media is the message. This isn’t anything to do with
seeking the truth. This is blind hatred and possibly fear of one slightly
built man who yesterday comprehensively shot their fox. The press conference really
should have been the end of it, but in any pantomime a willing suspension of
disbelief is necessary to endure the hackneyed script that we have heard a
thousand times before. Our fox cannot be dead, they cried, for we have not been
satisfied.
Today the pursuit continues unabated. Disaffected Tories join
with the remain establishment and the unruly gallery does its best to drown out
the voices onstage. By now, Mr Cummings is at least as vilified as Charles
Manson, or perhaps Anders Breivik. I mean, he was already ‘literally Hitler’; a
super-villain for the social media age, a Moriarty to the Meeja’s Sherlock, a Machiavelli
for the moment.
But now the story becomes ‘why’? Why hasn’t he stepped
down? Why hasn’t he made a grovelling apology to the genius reporters who ‘forensically’
examined all the evidence that he himself actually laid before them? Why hasn’t
he shown humility and shame for being in a better position than many who are enduring
lockdown in flats and back-to-back houses in northern suburbs? How dare he not
break down and beg forgiveness?
Quite simply, because he has no case to answer. I am not
just slavishly toeing the Johnson line here; I am no uncritical BoJo fanboy. Others
have pointed out that Stephen Kinnock wasn’t censured for visiting his parents,
that Ian Blackford took himself over the sea to Skye. I couldn’t care less
because none of them endangered anybody. But only Cummings has been so brazenly
challenged over an issue which is long past its sell-by date.
I'm waiting for the ugly sisters...
Now it is the press who have questions to answer. Why are
you so afraid of this one man? How is it that you have failed to land a single
blow in all your skirmishes? How come the rules and guidelines you accuse him
of breaking don’t apply to you? Haven’t you got some actual news to report? Why
do you need the country to hate him so much? Will you only be satisfied if your actions
cause permanent harm to him and his family? And shouldn’t you all be thoroughly
ashamed of yourselves?
I suppose the Leftwaffe press concentrated on Cummings because there was nothing else worthy of reporting.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't as if, for instance, the French navy was escorting invaders from France to British territorial waters. It wasn't as if the British Border Force was, by pre arrangement, meeting those same invaders and escorting them safely to British soil. It wasn't as if Beijing was trying to blackmail Australia because of a request that the causes of the CCPvirus be explored. It wasn't as if thousands were dying from the CCPvirus in muslimland because some mad mullah was claiming that social distancing was a western weapon. No news at all really.
How I long for the day when newspapers had real reporters.
Hear, hear!
DeleteWell said! Thank you.
DeleteThe anti-Leave lobby is extremely powerful and well connected, and has not given up. This story with its various muddles and manifest inaccuracies, is nonetheless a gift to those interested parties. It has been calculated to weaponize not only the grief of the bereaved who were not present with their loved ones at the time of death, but their worries and doubts. Did THEY do the right thing by their loved ones? If others did things differently, pushed or broke 'the rules,' and it is judged that they did right by their family, does this now mean they did wrong by theirs? And no, it doesn't mean that, but the very idea would be beyond bearing, and that demands a scapegoat. Dominic Cummings enemies have understood this perfectly well, and aimed directly for that bulls eye, and the MSM whether wittingly or not, are acting as their stooges in pushing that angle for everything it's worth.
ReplyDeleteI think whatever he did, they'd be shouting 'stone him' a la life of Brian.
ReplyDeleteI think he should have remained silent in so far as he gave in to their hideous demands to give a statement and sat at that table like he was waiting to charge parents £1 to get into the school bingo night. He was brilliant though and how he didn't tell them all to fuck off and fuck off a bit more when they get there now we are allowed to fuck off as far as we want, I don't know! Also I have been several times to Barnard Castle - it's gorgeous!! Hahahahaa
You go, gurl!!!!
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