More 'reaction'

"Andrew Neil eviscerates Boris Johnson over interview no show" says Steerpike in the Spectator online. But you know what? (I do hate that ‘you know what’ habit) (I’m just doing it now to annoy myself) This is what. Not everyone is with you.

if Andrew Neil, (associate editor of the Spectator) read the comments below the film clip + transcription featured in the online mag he co-edits,  he might find that his ‘no show’ rant is not quite the evisceration Steerpike envisaged. If anyone was eviscerated, some would say it’s the BBC’s eviscerator-in-chief himself. 

Don't appease him Boris!

I hope Boris continues to frustrate the self-aggrandising unattractive brute that is Neill: he's not worth the bother. And neither are most of the other broadcast political journalists worth the bother, all of whom appear to want to appear pointedly rude to their interviewee to illustrate what tough guys they are. When everyone of them are playing the same game it get tedious. Boorish.

Oh! ..am reminded: And what a total prat Marr made of himself when he attempted to outdo Neill with his incivility. Pathetic.

says commenter Bruce Mills. 

(At the time of writing, that was posted “14 minutes ago”, but the world has moved on since then.) This conversation has been going strong since yesterday. 

The oldest comment (by someone using  the moniker “The Macho King” ) says:

Brillo just comes across as a complete moron here.

He thinks he's bigger than the election, some kind of superstar interviewer that all must come before for some kind of validation. He is making that cardinal sin of starting to believe his own hype. And who the hell says that anyone who wants to be PM must pass through the gates of Brillo to win?

Would Trump do Brillo? No, Because Trump couldn't care less who this idiot is. Trump is perhaps the last Alpha male on the planet (bar the Macho King) and does what the hell he wants.

So Boris is right to ignore him. Don't play to his ego and appear on his show, it just validates his superiority complex.

There are one or two dissenting voices in the mix, most of which boil down to an assertion that Boris is an unprincipled buffoon and frit. Several say Boris was quite right to give the would-be inquisitor a wide berth - as if his berth isn’t wide enough already. Or did I mean girth. 

There’s an element of truth in both points of view if you ask me. But who’s asking?