So the BBC is out to get Boris once again, and Priti Patel. Guess what? Both are high profile Leave campaigners with senior government jobs….Boris being the Leave campaign’s most influential voice. The BBC would especially love to take him down and discredit him and thus leave Brexit without such a motivational and inspirational figurehead.
Priti Patel has made a slight gaff but hardly a sackable offence and yet the BBC has been on her case all day….but in all the reporting they fail to reveal the whole truth, in fact they tell a rather large porkie on the radio today…that she didn’t tell the FCO about her trip at all, either during it or after the event. This is not true. She informed the FCO of what she was doing as the trip went along as the BBC would know as it has read the letter she published explaining her actions…..
The FCO were aware of the visit while it was underway, but were not informed about it in advance….The Foreign Secretary did become aware of the visit, but not in advance of it.
On her return from Israel, the Secretary of State commissioned Departmental work on humanitarian and development partnership between Israel and the UK, and on disability.
The FCO are clear that UK interests were not damaged or affected by the meetings on this visit.
No surprise the anti-Semitic Labour Party are calling for her resignation after what was a trip that was almost wholely concerned with humanitarian issues. As well as meeting with 12 charities she met three political figures and the talk was based around a ‘get-to-know-you’ family and background chat, politics in Britain and Israel, and the rise of anti-Semitism in British politics as well as sounding out further ‘prospects for closer collaboration between Israel and the UK on development and humanitarian issues.’ All innocuous and worthwhile you might think.
The BBC prefers to minimise the information of interest, ie what they talked about, and instead tries to suggest some secretive pro-Israeli plot….led by a ‘pro-Israeli Tory peer and campaigner’…
The BBC revealed on Friday that Ms Patel held a number of undisclosed meetings with business and political figures, including Mr Lapid, the leader of Israel’s centrist Yesh Atid party.
No diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and campaigner, Lord Polak.
Here’s what Priti Patel says of her meeting with Yair Lapid:
Yair Lapid – Leader of Yesh Atid
General introduction. Discussion of backgrounds, families and careers to date. General discussion of British politics, including the growing anti-Semitism within UK politics.
Very sinister.
Can’t imagine the BBC being so upset about a Labour minister going to visit Hamas in similar circumstances.