tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post5081342855562614477..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Theresa May; a counterbalancing postCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-14242219490623760112016-07-02T20:05:35.197+01:002016-07-02T20:05:35.197+01:00Cameron had to go, period. He had no standing to b...Cameron had to go, period. He had no standing to be leader after the lies and threats and splintering his own party just to win an election. The Speccie kids refuse to learn this lesson, but there is more to leadership than simply winning elections. Look no further than David Cameron and Barak Obama for proof of that. The BBC is equally foolish on that score.<br /><br />The problem now is that the official reason for Cameron stepping down is that the public voted against him and his policy, but now the Tory party is seeking to replace him with someone else who shared his defeated policy and will be essentially governing against the public's wishes. Never mind the - from my US perspective - the undemocratic nature of this particular quirk of the parliamentary system.<br /><br />May is execrable even before we get to her Clintonesque triangulation on Brexit. Which she got wrong in the end. It's astonishing to me that she is the lead contender. Is she somehow reaping the benefit of remaining (pun not intended, but encouraged nevertheless) aloof from the entire referendum proceedings, claiming to be on the fence (or whatever BS she was having her media toadies report that week)?<br /><br />Boris was apparently about to stab the country in the back, but Gove is met with "Et tu, Brute" for standing up for the people? And now somebody who drove the police force further into the ground, had the worst possible track record on immigration (one of two main reasons for the Brexit result, for which she bears the lion's share of blame), and the whole "Nowt To Do With Islam" routine (another reason for resentment and mistrust of the Tory leadership leading to the Brexit result) is getting support from many formerly respectable quarters.<br /><br />May is just as likely to quietly keep Britain in the EU as Boris was. What is going on? The Establishment making sure the correct outcome happens in spite of the vote is what's going on.<br /><br />As for Gove, it seems at least a couple of those 'gotchas' are no such thing, and are more like Mardell/Davis-style false representations of what he said. He must be destroyed, of course, because he's what the majority of Conservative Brexit voters would want.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.com