Unseen footage of some of Johnson’s ministers …

 

 

It looks as if the rats are leaving the sinking Johnson ship. The headlines this morning are about ‘four key advisers’ having resigned (link paywalled, paywalled link, link). There’s also an editorial in The Times where John Forsyth remarks that Tories are being ‘fearful’ about what Johnson may say next, about ‘another Jimmy Savile moment’ and if that might force his resignation (link, paywalled).

Johnson accusing Starmer of being responsible for the Savile cover-up when he was Director of the Crown Prosecution Service was the trigger for one of his most trusted advisers, Ms Mirza, to quit. The decision not to prosecute Savile was indeed taken under Starmer’s CPS leadership (link), but so were the decisions not to delve into the grooming gang crimes but uphold the ‘community cohesion’ principle. Mustn’t we not mention this either?

The most important question regarding these resignations as well as Tory apprehensions about a Johnson resignation because four of his advisers have now resigned is of course not being asked: has it now come to this, that a PM cannot govern unless he’s propped up by a horde of SpAds? It would seem so, given this piece of well-placed gossip in The Times:

“Cabinet ministers believe there is a “50/50” chance that Boris Johnson will be forced out of office after four of his most senior aides quit Downing Street and his chancellor publicly rebuked him.” (link, paywalled)

Unsurprisingly these ‘ministers’ – two actually, according to The Times – remain anonymous even now. For a piece of blatant gossip wrapped in ponderous, doom-laden language this really cannot be bettered

“Last night two cabinet ministers questioned whether Johnson could survive. “It feels like the end, it’s all falling apart,” one said. “It’s 50/50 in my view at the moment.” Another added that it was “difficult to tell” whether the prime minister could stay on.” (link, paywalled)

Gah – we could have come up with that comment ourselves! Meanwhile, the wannabe successors are jockeying for pole position. Two days ago Gove had his place in the sun with that ‘Levelling Up’ White Paper. Today it’s the turn of Mr Jabbit who will ‘set out his vision’ by announcing a Ten-Year plan for the UK, a new ‘war on cancer’, as he’ll pledge (how I loathe this expression beloved by politicians!):

“[…] to invest in potential new treatments including coronavirus-style vaccines. Artificial intelligence will also be used to diagnose the disease as part of a ten-year plan that will clear the Covid backlog and go further still, Sajid Javid is to say today in a speech at the Francis Crick Institute in London. He will pledge to make the country’s cancer care system the best in Europe.” (link, paywalled)

And ‘Our Sacred Cow’ is of course the best in the world, innit! The brazenness of that ‘pledge’ is breathtaking. Not only has cancer care become utterly dysfunctional thanks to lockdown and all the other covid ‘measures’, with 50,000 fewer cases diagnosed, never mind treated (link), studies about the long-term effects of yon mRNA covid vaccines on our health are being swept under the carpet. That also means studies already reporting outbreaks of cancer in jabbed, formerly healthy people, for example in the US Armed Forces. No worries – what could go wrong when

“Scientists who pioneered the jabs to protect people against Covid are examining whether similar methods can be used to train the immune system to recognise and attack cancer cells, preventing regrowth.” (paywalled link)

Yay – let’s all ‘train’ our immune systems by getting jabs for everything! One thing which is already going wrong is that the latest ‘vaccine’ to be made available, ‘Novavax’, will now be imported from India and not manufactured here, as promised (link, paywalled). Ah well, that’s how it goes when politicians’ ‘pledge’.

The next one up for his spot in that ‘succession race’ is of course Sunak. Brits, we’re told, are facing the biggest drop in living standards thanks to exploding energy costs and inflation. In their report on those shenanigans in No 10 the DM is the most blood-thirsty (see their headline here), even unto writing that Sunak has joined that ‘omigad he mentioned Starmer and Savile’ bandwagon.

The Times reports on Sunak’s ‘package’ of £9b loans and council tax ‘rebates’, faithfully delivering Sunak’s remark that Brits would have to ‘adjust’ to those higher prices (link, paywalled). What else are we supposed to do? Stop paying our taxes? The DT reporters had their ears to the ground and came up with this headline:

“Rishi Sunak repeatedly refuses to rule out standing for PM if Boris Johnson goes -The Chancellor refused three times to be drawn on whether he was up for competing in a leadership competition, calling it ‘hypothetical’.” (paywalled link)

Of course he would refuse answering such questions! Why waste time on asking those rather than on his refusal to prosecute all those wasted billions on fraud and incompetence during the covid years? Ah well, it’s only our money and “we” peasants can always hand over more of it.

It’s a nice deflection produced by the Westminster hacks who are now retreating as quickly as they can from all their previous covid fear porn. The DT’s columnist Fraser Nelson suddenly finds it possible to refer to a study by Johns Hopkins saying that:

“[…] overall, lockdowns reduced Covid mortality by just 0.2 per cent. “Lockdown policies are ill-founded,” it concluded, “and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.” (paywalled link)

Now that there’s an ‘official’ report he dares to question lockdown! The many articles by lockdown sceptics, some being most eminent scientists, were not worthy of a look-in by the Nelsons and other fear-porn Westminster hacks. These are the same sycophants who ‘celebrate’ Jabbit’s ‘war on cancer’ thanks to vaccines’!

These are the same Westminster sycophants who only mention in passing that the RN won’t send migrants back to France, that they won’t enforce Ms Patel’s policy (link). ‘Woke Humanitarianism’ beats patriotism hands-down. What would they do if Putin’s Navy lands some ‘illegal immigrants’ on our shores? Hide? Cry?

I leave you with two news items. One is that the Tories ‘won’ the Southend West seat in yesterday’s by-election. That election was necessary because the incumbent was murdered late last year. LibLabGreen didn’t contest that by-election. The turn-out was a staggering 24% (link). For a breakdown of names, parties and votes won, go here. It’s … interesting.

The other news which I personally deplore is that Brian Moore has been axed by the BBC. His last performance will be tomorrow, commenting on the Calcutta Cup, the match between Scotland and England. The DT reports that this is a BBC cost-cutting exercise, needed after they lost broadcasting most of the Six Nations matches to ITV (paywalled link). All is not lost, he’ll apparently be permitted to report on women’s rugby …

Never mind – who needs rugby when the Winter Olympics open today, in China, on artificial snow. Putin and Xi will meet, presumably talking about the decline of NATO and the West. ‘Tis only fair since the West’s ‘leaders’ are shunning these games, clearly preferring to war-monger amongst themselves. Happy days, innit like …

 

 

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