How things work in a crumbling democracy
1/ PM uses far-right ‘paedo’ conspiracy theory to smear LOTO purely in order to distract attention from his own egregious rule breaking? PM does this despite being warned by his own advisors not to do it.
1/ PM uses far-right ‘paedo’ conspiracy theory to smear LOTO purely in order to distract attention from his own egregious rule breaking? PM does this despite being warned by his own advisors not to do it.
2/Outcry ensues. The PM’s own policy chief resigns, supposedly in protest. Some Tory MPs denounce PM’s actions
3/Cabinet members refuse to do this
4/ PM issues fake ‘explanation’, accusing critics of getting ‘hot under the collar.’ Says he wasn’t accusing LOTO of anything
3/Cabinet members refuse to do this
4/ PM issues fake ‘explanation’, accusing critics of getting ‘hot under the collar.’ Says he wasn’t accusing LOTO of anything
5/Cabinet members support PM’s ‘clarification’, thereby compounding their tolerance of PM’s initial lie with acceptance of his second.
6/RIghtwing newspaper publishes article by Tory client journalist Andrew Pierce echoing smear against LOTO
6/RIghtwing newspaper publishes article by Tory client journalist Andrew Pierce echoing smear against LOTO
7/Far-right social media seethes with Starmer/Savile/‘grooming gangs’ hatred
8/LOTO and Shadow Foreign Minister are monstered by baying mob shouting ‘paedophile’, ‘traitor’ and brandishing noose. LOTO is hustled by police into car
8/LOTO and Shadow Foreign Minister are monstered by baying mob shouting ‘paedophile’, ‘traitor’ and brandishing noose. LOTO is hustled by police into car
8/PM and cabinet ministers issue virtually identical condemnations of mob. ‘No space for such behaviour’ etc. Not one of them acknowledges PM’s role in legitimising the same smear aimed at LOTO
9/ Next morning Tory client journalist Andrew Pierce appears on Breakfast TV
9/ Next morning Tory client journalist Andrew Pierce appears on Breakfast TV
10/ Pierce defends Johnson’s initial smear/denies that PM bears any responsibility for mob attack
11/ That same morning government minister appears on Sky TV, echoes ‘Savile’ smear and PM’s subsequent lying ‘explanation’ for it, denies PM bears any responsibility for mob. news.sky.com/story/boris-jo… 
All this because the most worthless individual ever to occupy 10 Downing Street was caught out repeatedly breaking public health rules during a pandemic, then lying and misleading parliament, while blaming others for his failings, and thought he’d distract attention by
accusing the LOTO of failing to prosecute a notorious paedophile. A small, but vicious chapter in our national downfall, in which the moral depravity of one man was compounded by the depravity of his own cabinet and party, dragging us all down into the dirt with them.
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