The BBC’s Andrew Neil has thrown down the gauntlet to Boris Johnson – but there’s a problem
Boris Johnson: Was this his answer to Andrew Neil?
Boris Johnson is a coward.
Having seen Andrew Neil laying into Nicola Sturgeon, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson, he has run away to take selfies with Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby rather than face the same fate.
So Mr Neil laid down a direct challenge to him, live on air.
Here it is:
“It is not too late. We have an interview prepared. Oven-ready, as Mr Johnson likes to say”
Andrew Neil issues a challenge for Boris Johnson to commit to an interview with him, to face questions on why people have “deemed him to be untrustworthy”https://t.co/daHLxEYn4r pic.twitter.com/oQ21uDdtJe
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 5, 2019
Powerful stuff?
There’s just one problem – as This Writer explained in a tweet to Mr Neil:
.@afneil Nice challenge to @BorisJohnson – giving away the topics you want to cover. Did you afford the other leaders the same courtesy? #GeneralElection2019 #UKPolitics #PoliticsLive #ThursdayThoughts #ThursdayWisdom #ThursdayMotivation
— Mike Sivier (@MidWalesMike) December 5, 2019
It’s a reasonable question, I think. Did any of the other political leaders Mr Neil has interviewed have prior notice of what they would be asked?
I have had no answer.
It seems Mr Johnson isn’t the only one running away from scrutiny.
Source: General election 2019: Full text of Andrew Neil’s challenge to Johnson – BBC News
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I think its pretty obvious by now what the questions would be anyway :-)
I have yet to see Boris or the Tories challenged by the media/press about any of the matters raised and detailed here:-
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/
Indeed, they also haven’t really scrutinised why they are saying that ‘austerity is over’ when it was apparently necessary before. Tories -making it up as they go along!
I suspect that Mr. Neil knows that cowardly Pinocchio Johnson will never accept the challenge. He’s too frit, He’s yella.