Category Archives: anti-Boris

I am sure you will all have caught the BBC’s faux outrage over the fact that Sir Ian Blair has resigned from his role as Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Yesterday, as the news was breaking, Red Ken was instantly brought on air on 5 live and allowed to retail the idea that Boris Johnson has made a terrible mistake by introducing…politics into policing. Over the past 24 hours, the BBC has provided a valuable platform for Labour and their placed stooges in which this idea of the Tories “politicising policing” has been repeated ad nauseum. We saw Jacqui Smith at it on QT last night and again this morning Sir Ian was painted as a metropolitan martyr to the evil Boris.

The BBC know damn well that the role of Metropolitan Commissioner has been politicised for years – and that Labour has been to the fore in this regard. But when it’s the LEFT calling the shots, if you’ll pardon the expression in the context of Sir Ian, that’s given a free pass. When it’s the RIGHT, in the form of Boris, then BBC outrage is expressed and the position taken by Mr Johnson is misrepresented. If the people of London elect a Mayor to represent them, and if he expresses the common view in London that Sir Ian does not enjoy their confidence, what is the BBC’s problem with this? It is that harsh fact that a Conservative can actually exercise POWER that so enrages them. That is why Boris is at the receiving end of BBC smearing in the past day. You can only imagine what it would be like if Cameron comes to power in 2010, a prospect the BBC are determined to ensure does not come about.