After a week of silence on the Northern Ireland riots, Boris Johnson finally deigned to actually comment on the situation, saying that he's "deeply concerned"
But if he's as "deeply concerned" as he says he is, why on earth did it take him a week to even say anything?
The BBC and corporate media outlets, who have been dutifully downplaying the riots, suddenly sprung into action, pumping out articles uncritically framing the riots through Boris Johnson's self-declared "deep concerns".
BBC, ITV, Sky News, Express, Times, Evening Standard, MSN, City AM, & others all ran news reports & articles uncritically headlining Boris Johnson's "concerns", without bothering to mention the fact that the border he's created down the Irish Sea as one of the main causal factors
When Johnson decided to lazily scrawl a border down the Irish Sea onto Theresa May's shambles of a Withdrawal Agreement, he wasn't just blatantly breaking his promise never to do such a thing, he was also wilfully lobbing the Irish Peace Process onto his raging Brexit bonfire.
Johnson lit the blue touch paper in Northern Ireland and then retreated back into his comfort zone, then when the violence kicked off, he sat there for a week saying nothing, before issuing a glib statement saying how "concerned" he is about the chaos he helped cause.
Then all the dutiful scribes in the media hack pack uncritically repeat his idle "concerns", without bothering to explain that he's the arsonist who caused the chaos in the first place
UK media is as horribly unfit for purpose as our bone-idle, bigoted, philandering liar of a PM
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