We’ve waited for Sue Gray’s report longer than the sequel to Top Gun… it could be just as explosive, says Piers Morgan
I WANTED to start tonight with the impending report on illegal, lockdown-busting parties in Downing Street – which is finally due any day now.
It feels like we’ve waited longer for civil servant Sue Gray’s report than the sequel to Top Gun, but now it’s here, it looks like it’ll be every bit as explosive.
But in the last few minutes, sensational photos have been published which in my view pretty much render this report pointless.
What’s clear from these pictures is that Boris Johnson hasn’t just lied to the British people and the media, but he’s also lied to Parliament.
There’s a clip of Boris Johnson in Parliament on December 8th.
He’s asked a direct question about a specific party.
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This is how it goes: “Can the prime minister tell the House whether there was a party in Downing Street on 13 November?”
“No, but I’m sure whatever happened the guidance… and the rules were followed at all times,”
The Prime Minister could not have been clearer.
Did a party take place on November 13th? “No,” he says. All rules were followed.
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Directly to Parliament – and the country.
That was just 25 days after these pictures were taken.
They show a leaving party for his former spindoctor Lee Cain. And as anybody can see from the pictures, this is not a work meeting.
This is a party. The bottles on the table, the booze in his hand, party food on the table.
And most damningly of all, a government Red Box beside him.
What was in that Red Box?
More drafts of new pandemic lockdown laws for the British public to obey.
Boris Johnson was always very clear: “You must obey the rules.”
Whatever Sue Gray publishes now will only confirm what we’ve all suspected for months.
Boris Johnson attended illicit parties at Downing Street and then he lied about it.
And when it comes to lies, we now know that two weeks ago he had a secret meeting with Sue Gray – the woman charged with investigating him and his staff.
When this information was exposed, Downing Street briefed that it was her idea.
Today Downing Street admitted it was their idea.
So, they lied again. Even about a meeting with the person investigating the parties.
This matters because we’re entitled to know exactly why this meeting happened and who wanted it. The stench of suspicion is becoming unbearable. And there’s only one way for that stench to be removed.
Gray must publish the report in full – including the 500-odd photographs of parties she’s said to have collected for her investigation.
Let the public judge with their own eyes and make up their own minds.
But after the emergence of these pictures tonight, it’s crystal clear that we can’t trust a word that comes out of the Downing Street frat house about this whole tawdry affair.
DUKE OF STALK
Talking of tawdry affairs brings me to another shameful member of the British establishment, Prince Andrew.
He was quite rightly stripped of his honorary titles, and the designation of His Royal Highness in public, after settling his civil sex abuse case out of court for a reported $11 million.
The pay-out for Virginia Giuffre, who claimed the prince assaulted her when she was just 17, made no admission of guilt but Andrew said he was determined to fight the case and clear his name – and then caved and wrote a cheque.
By doing so, he obliterated his own reputation, heaped embarrassment upon his mother the Queen, and tarnished the brand of the monarchy around the world.
That should have been the end of Andrew as a public figure.
And this fate seemed to be confirmed when his mother the Queen banished him and the Sussexes from the Buckingham Palace balcony at next week’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
But incredibly, it appears he is already plotting his comeback.
Reports over the weekend say he will appear alongside the Queen at the iconic Royal Garter Day at Windsor Castle on June 13, one of the most important royal ceremonies of the year.
He will be listed on the formal royal court circular and be dressed in full regalia as an official Royal Knight.
The grotesque irony of Andrew starring on a day designed to honour Chivalry won’t be lost on his accuser.
Nor should it be lost on any of us.
It’s an absolute disgrace that will cause yet more humiliation for the Queen.
YOB RULE
The English football season reached a thrilling conclusion this weekend.
But the final few days of action were marred by a series of horrendous attacks on players and managers that have brought the game into shocking disrepute.
Yesterday, Aston Villa goalkeeper Robin Olsen was assaulted three times as Manchester City fans invaded the pitch to celebrate winning the title.
He’d just let in three goals in five minutes to gift them the trophy – these witless louts should’ve been carrying him aloft and singing his name, not hitting and abusing him.
Last Tuesday, a boozed-up thug head-butted Sheffield United’s Billy Sharp as Forest fans charged the pitch to celebrate making it to Wembley for the play-off final.
And two days later Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira was abused and goaded by a foul-mouthed Everton supporter who was filming the entire thing on his phone.
Vieira eventually kicked out at the vile yob, prompting calls for him to be investigated by the authorities.
But why?
He never backed down as a player. Why should he back down to a snivelling little coward hurling spittle at him?
There’s been a steady, depressing increase in this kind of incident since pandemic restrictions were lifted and crowds returned with two years of pent-up excitement.
But current punishments clearly aren’t working as a deterrent.
And the bottom line is that if these pitch invasions are allowed to continue – and let me remind you that it’s a criminal offence to go on the pitch during a professional football match in Britain – we’re going to see a player or manager get seriously injured or even killed.
I’d fine every single pitch invader £20,000 and give them a 20-year ban from all football matches.
This may sound draconian but what other option is there?
The party has to be over for pitch invaders – they’ve already ruined the party.
WORD PLAY
Viral news now, and it’s not Covid or Monkeypox but a rare outbreak of common sense at the heart of the beleaguered British government.
Officials have overturned an attempt to introduce “gender-neutral” language in a new law that would’ve replaced the word “mothers” with “expectant people.”
New guidance has now been issued to ensure future bills will use gendered words that, well, correspond to the gender of whoever they’re talking about.
The woke war on words, supposedly to avoid upsetting imaginary minorities – at the expense of common sense – is now a daily irritant.
So, while we have the attention of those in the corridors of power, here’s my Uncensored guide to Snowflake Syntax – and some other words I’m sick of hearing.
Trauma.
This used to be something you suffered in a car accident, or after a life-changing event.
Now we have hidden trauma, racial trauma, gender trauma, collective trauma, trauma healing, trauma survival, trauma bonding.
It’s not trauma.
You can dislike something without being “traumatised.”
Violence.
You know this one. Physical force intended to hurt someone, right?
Like those football yobs attacking players.
No, not anymore.
Campus speeches by controversial talkers are violence.
History is violence.
Silence is violence.
Oh, and words are violence too.
No, they’re not.
Phobia.
This used to mean an extreme fear of something.
Now it means someone said something you don’t like, which is absurd.
It’s not “Islamaphobic” if I say I don’t agree with women being forced to wear head-to-toe coverings.
And it’s not “transphobic” if I say women are adult human females and not menstruating persons.
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Having a phobia means you’re scared.
Well the only thing I’m scared of is these snowflakes and softies destroying the English language.
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