Johnson the hypocrite

You can’t possibly know if he views to get journalists battered would still stand today
Oh that’s ok then! Jesus you need new moral standards.
We can also possibly know the second half, about how important it is to allow journalists their voice when he’s denied so many certainly does still hold true
 
Strange you have just joined the site and yet you know how he voted years ago, its almost like you were here before under a different name 😉
He said on the this thread he did, I've read this site on and off for years, was posting on here a good ten years ago, possibly before you,
 
Johnson's hypocrisy on the free press is far more recent than the Darius Guppy case.

“As a former journalist I am alarmed that worldwide attacks on journalists are rife and increasing,” said Boris Johnson as UK foreign minister, back in 2017.

“Where governments fear freedom of expression they often try to shut down media and civil society, or clip their wings.”

In February 2020, Lee Cain, stopped members of certain press outlets from attending a press briefing by Johnson which led to other journalists walking out in protest.

Journalists from the Independent, Guardian and Mirror were told that any questions they asked at the Dominic Cummings Press conference after Barnard Castle would not be answered.

Boris Johnson refusing to attend various interviews, press conferences and even his own constituency hustings because he does not want to talk to the Press.

Banning any journalist from asking questions regarding the Covid vaccine at several Press conferences.

The Arrest of a journalist outside a Asylum Camp in Kent for breaching Covid guidelines despite him working alone and journalists being free to work during lockdown as a key profession.

The delays and non delivery for Freedom of Information requests area at a record level.

Government Minister Kemi Badenoch calling out journalist Nadine White for asking her questions regarding BAME attitudes towards the vaccine roll out.

The Ice Sculpture that replaced Johnson as he refused to attend a Televised climate change debate.

I'll leave the last word on Johnson's hypocrisy to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) an organisation that exists to fight for and maintain press freedoms who called Johnson's response to criticism in the media as 'vindictive' and 'the erosion of press freedom in the UK is being driven by a government insistent on silencing media dissent'.
 
Learning to live with COVID, is in the medium/long term probably what the future holds.
The real difficulty is living with this and the Tories in charge, may prove impossible.
 
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