When the hurlyburly's done

 Fair is foul, and foul is fair

Alas (despite yesterday's foul weather up here in Morecambe), there's a good deal less hurly-burly these days than there used to be.

Senior BBC editor (and blog favourite) Rob Burley seemed to have pulled back dramatically from confronting the far-left/#FBPE crowds who constantly deluge his timeline with senseless fury every Sunday.

I don't blame him. I suspect he's exhausted. And they never stop.

Still, at least he felt up to replying to The Lordly Adonis about this morning's Andrew Marr

Rob's right.

Lord Andy Adonis had been complaining about the published guest list for today's programme.

Who did it consist of?

Well, for starters there was a leading, like-minded Blairite pro-People's Vote MP, Chuka Umumma.

(One for Lord Adonis there.)

And there was a leading ultra-pro-EU MEP from the Netherlands, Sophie in't Veld - assistant to M. Barnier no less.

(Another one for Lord Adonis there).

Both are 'important' people of a similar mind to Lord Adonis, so you'd think Lord Adonis, as a non-impartial, anti-Brexit partisan, would be overjoyed and full of praise for the BBC for featuring them.

Plus Lord Adonis presumably witnessed the Guardian's Anushka Asthana and the newly pro-Mrs May Daily Mail's political editor Jason Groves on the paper review with Ms. in't Veld, so what would genuinely trouble him there?  Not Anushka obviously, nor anything she said. But maybe Jason is still a little too tainted with the fading scent of Paul Dacre for his refined tastes?

So what on earth was Lord Adonis moaning about then? 

Well, the two other guests were International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and Shadow Communities Secretary Andrew Gwynne. 

I'm guessing His Lordship was principally moaning because pro-Mrs May cabinet minister Liam Fox is a known Brexiteer and The Andrew Marr Show was brazen enough to invite him on.

Evidently, even pro-Mrs May (and her EU deal) Brexiteers are far too much for His Lordship's delicate sensibilities - even if they are the view of the currently-serving International Trade Secretary.

And Labour's Andrew Gwynne, a willing servant in his party leader's shadow cabinet who voted Remain in the referendum, might also have offended him too for sounding a bit too Jeremy Corbyn-like over Brexit, for Mr. Gwynne wasn't wholly singing from the Lord Adonis hymn sheet.

This is, of course, classic 'complaints from both sides' nonsense.

It's 'textbook' actually:

Lord Adonis tweets complete nonsense, Rob rebuts him, and Rob's rebuttal is correct. But, on inspection (beyond their discussion), it turns out that Lord Adonis is actually, if anything, 'proving' the other side's point:

Where was the 'hardline Brexiteer' opposing Mrs May's deal? Nowhere to be seen. 

The BBC, as per Rob Burley, will doubtless keep on contending with outlying, Establishment, dead-wrong, doubtless deeply, deeply disingenuous critics like Lord Adonis. And Lord Adonis's woolly followers will doubtless bleat and wag their fleecy tails in rage at the BBC at his every belch. And life will go on. And the BBC will go on...

But Lord Adonis was talking complete and utter bullocks (or heifers) here. And no 'hardline Brexiteer' was present. And the evidence, if anything, goes in a completely opposite direction to that falsely asserted by Baron Adonis, of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden.

As Alastair Campbell might say, I come, Graymalkin! Paddock calls. Anon.