Weep for the causes the MSM promote!

 

 

Why are the Westminster ‘News’ editors so keen to promote mawkishness? Just look at today’s print editions’ front pages – but do keep a hankie handy (link)! We must weep about those four illegals who drowned trying to cross the Channel, especially as ‘a child’s voice’ was heard on the radio transmission. 

Never mind that this accident was bound to happen, that people have been warned of this for months, never mind that this ‘cry for help’, to be picked up, was ‘business as usual’. What I would like to know is: where were the RNLI, the French and the Royal Navy who provide this taxi service? Why did a trawler captain have to pick them up? I mean: someone is to blame for those deaths, and since we cannot, must not blame the dinghy drivers “because: racism!”,  it’s gotta be our own services!

The other front page news this morning is of course the nurses’ strike. Scroll down a bit in that compilation – here’s the link again – and look at the especially nauseating front page of The Mirror. If you have a really strong stomach, you might also take a look at this morning’s cartoon in The Times. I’ve yet to see a cartoon by this and indeed any other cartoonist showing how clapped-out and underpaid we, the ordinary people are. It’s as if we don’t have to worry about inflation, about our lives affected by all those other strikes, about paying ever more taxes for ever shrinking services. 

I wonder why the news about the sad deaths of those boys in Solihull, who crashed through the ice of a frozen lake, have gone from the front pages. Why did the MSM News editors think it is fitting to wail about the deaths of those illegals instead? Why, for example, has the DT removed the report about a fourth boy dying from their online front pages? Is this not a truly heartbreaking tragedy:

“A six-year-old boy has become the fourth child to die after falling into an ice covered lake in Solihull. The child, who is the younger brother of an eight-year-old boy who also died in the tragedy, had been fighting for his life in hospital ever since the incident at Babbs Mill nature reserve on Sunday.” (paywalled link)

It’s as if the Westminster MSM do not want us to mourn for our own, as if the grief of a family who has lost two boys, just before Christmas, isn’t really ‘newsworthy’. Something else is apparently only worthy of the odd report in the Red Tops: the riots on the continent after the footie match. The Express has one (link), and so has the DM where we read:

“Shocking video footage has emerged of the moment a teenage boy was run down on the streets of Montpellier as Moroccan fans riot following their World Cup semi final defeat to France. The boy, 14, was part of a large group of what appeared to be Moroccan supporters marauding down Rue de la Mosson in the southern French city when they happened upon a white hatchback with a French flag flying out of its window. The group descended on the car, attempting to rip the flag away from its owner, when the driver panicked and performed a hasty U-turn to cross into the oncoming lane and make a quick getaway.” (link)

Shocking indeed – and the photos accompanying this report are equally shocking, not because of the violence they document but because these riots are so widespread, taking place in several major cities in France.

Staying with ‘events on the Continent’ which don’t interest us, there’s the ongoing case of bribery at the EU Parliament. The Greek lady, now removed from her job as EU Parliament Vice President, has declared that she is innocent, that she didn’t know there was so much cash in her flat. Yeah right – it’s so easy to lose thousands of €uros behind the back of one’s sofa! Who hasn’t been in that situation … See this:

“Kaili has denied that the money was meant for bribes and instead insisted that the EU’s relationship with Qatar was growing closer because Europe was trying to move away from dependency on Russian energy to seek new gas or oil supplies from Gulf states.” (link, paywalled)

Alright: it’s Putin’s fault that this EU laydee had to seek closer relationships with Qatar – nothing to do with nothing. But then there’s also this (my emphasis):

“It is absolutely false that I had any personal agenda in promoting Qatar’s interests,” she said through her lawyer, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, late on Tuesday. “There were discussions from 2019 that the EU establish trade relations with Qatar, Kuwait and Oman.” So close was the relationship, said Dimitrakopoulos, that Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the autocratic emir of Qatar, had been invited to address the EU assembly, a rare honour for a foreign leader. The parliament denied that any such invitation had ben extended.” (link, paywalled)

Oh dear. So she’s innocent, she didn’t need no bribes, and surely that ‘invitation’ of which the EU Parliament is unaware has just been lost in the mail. Furthermore, it can’t have been her money, perhaps it was her dad’s (my emphasis):

“Kaili’s lawyers insisted that cash, amounting to more than €900,000, found in raids on her home and a hotel room where her father was staying, “was not from Qatar and was not any kickback from Qatar. She did not do them any service. They didn’t need Kaili,” said Dimitrakopoulos, stressing that Kaili was acting as a “recipient of EU orders”. The emir of Qatar was already scheduled to address the European parliament in January 2023.” (link, paywalled)

Say what? ”The EU” had given ‘orders’ to yon vice president? Oh dear! Is this laydee now trying to throw some higher-up EU person under the bus? Who could that be? Who could give orders to a Parliamentary vice president? Hm … And this is the EU our inveterate Remainers want us to rejoin! Funny how no prominent EU-promoter has yet said anything about this corruption case.

I leave you with news of the latest fear porn scenario. It’s beautiful because globull warming plays a role, allegedly. I’ll just quote the headline of that report in the DT:

“Melting ice brings Chinese threat closer, warns Armed Forces chief – Tony Radakin says climate change will open up shipping routes in a boost for Beijing’s growing naval forces” (paywalled link)

Crikey: ’tis not only Russians who’re coming, it’s also the Chinese! The timing of this warning, given in a speech yesterday, couldn’t have been more unfortunate as the nation shivers, as the Met office warns of more cold snaps, all due to weather systems coming from the Arctic! Radakin’s closing remarks are worthy to be filed under ‘utterly out of touch’, as example for our valiant leaders being blissfully unaware of real life:

“Sir Tony insisted that, despite the war in Ukraine and an increasingly authoritarian China, he remained “confident” in the nation’s security, despite the “worrying times”. He added that the UK will succeed by being “confident” in its values and  “by staying strong at home and in the world”.” (paywalled link)

Oh really? ‘Strong at home’ when we cannot protect our borders? When we, the plebs who pay for yon Army chief, are being crushed by inflation, ravaged by strikes? When those ‘values’ have been undermined and thwarted for years? Peter Hitchens has an excellent article on this in today’s DM which you might like to read (link).

Apparently Radakin didn’t mention that his ‘underlings’, the soldiers who have had their Christmas leaves cancelled to do the job of the Border Farce, of ambulance drivers, even of nurses, might be worthy of applause.

I wonder if we who didn’t clap for the Sacred Cow might not instead start clapping for our soldiers who are called in when others strike, who give up their Christmas leave so that some semblance of service for the Nation can be maintained. Meanwhile, keep warm and safe: the NHS ain’t working today.



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