I am turning into Victor Meldrew
I HOPE I can be forgiven for being a bit of a Victor Meldrew, but I don’t believe it! With the Government having gone crazy, deciding to send illegal boat people to Rwanda, and good old dependable Don Frampton judging the BBC to be the model of impartiality, my patience has been sorely tried.
For years, the BBC displayed breathtaking bias against Brexit. The numbers of pro-EU people invited to speak on their Today programme or sit on the Question Time panel, compared to the hugely fewer number of Brexiteers, was exposed years ago, and even today the BBC keeps up its anti-Brexit campaign with critical comments just subtly dropped into news reports where the phrase “due to Brexit” is casually thrown into commentaries without any explanation or justification.
Sky are at least as bad, but we don’t pay for them unless we choose to, but we have to pay for the BBC, which consistently fails to recognise the point of view of at least half of its sponsors.
As for the mainly military-aged male boat people, it was Nigel
Farage who first brought this to our attention, several months before the mainstream media began to cover it. However, because it was Nigel drawing attention to it, the media and our politicians refused to acknowledge it as a problem.
The boats, sometimes launched under the eyes of French police, sometimes escorted to mid-Channel by French vessels, should, upon interception, have been stopped, the people taken on board the British boat – lifeboat or Border Patrol – and immediately taken back to France. It would have caused a hoo-hah but what would the French or the EU have done? Sent a gun-boat? There would have been various human rights groups complaining but it would have been a fuss soon forgotten – this, when the numbers were hundreds rather than scores – and we wouldn’t be facing the problem today.
With the media intent on getting Boris out of office whilst he is at the forefront of the European (geographical rather than political) support for Ukraine is just barking. You can’t compare the removal of the visibly weak and incapable Chamberlain and his replacement with Churchill to the situation today. Who else is there in Westminster in any part of the chamber with Boris’s charisma.
He is, undeniably and regrettably, a Tory but is clearly the right man for the job at the moment. Priti
Patel has made us a laughing stock over the issue of accommodating the many women and children fleeing Ukraine. She has failed to tame the real culprits in all this, the Civil Service, hence the ridiculous process these poor people have to go through to get a visa. In this, at least the EU is leaving us standing.
It is not the principle of Brexit that causes any problems, it is the incompetence and unwillingness of the Government and Civil Service in administering Brexit that is the problem.
Tom Trust Redruth, Cornwall