DAN WOOTTON: Sturgeon arrest makes Johnson witch-hunt look ridiculous

DAN WOOTTON: The arrest of Nicola Sturgeon makes the witch-hunt of Boris Johnson by the blob, Westminster establishment and MSM over a piece of cake look even more ridiculous. The missing SNP million has been a scandal hiding in plain sight

On the night Scheming Sturgeon resigned, ITV’s political editor Robert Peston enthused on air that she had been ‘the most impressive leader of a major political leader of the past decade’.

The Scottish First Minister’s victory lap included accepting equally lavish praise during farewell interviews with Lorraine Kelly and Sly News political editor Beth Rigby, who seemed to buy that she was quitting frontline politics to spend more time with her SNP chief executive husband Peter Murrell, maybe in the luxury motorhome parked outside her mother-in-law’s house.

For anyone with half a brain, it was obvious Sturgeon had been forced off stage by the ongoing police investigation into the missing million pounds raised by hapless party members for a second independence referendum campaign that never happened.

As leader, Sturgeon was one of just three signatories on the SNP’s accounts – the other being her husband and the party’s treasurer (both also arrested by Scottish cops).

DAN WOOTTON: For anyone with half a brain, it was obvious Sturgeon had been forced off stage by the ongoing police investigation into the missing million pounds

But the British mainstream broadcast media had spent two years happily turning a blind eye to the scandal of the disappearing donations that now engulfs Scotland’s ruling party.

They were far more interested in presenting Queen Nic as an anti-Tory/pro trans woke warrior, regularly calling out the Westminster government – especially the Brexit delivering Prime Minister Boris Johnson – for, er, corruption and cronyism.

Oh, the irony.

The only so-called ‘crime’ the British Bashing Corporation, ITV News, Sly News, The Guardian and Daily Mirror were prepared to doggedly pursue was the one committed by Boris, who had received a fixed penalty notice, a legal slap on the wrist, alongside Rishi Sunak, for eating a piece of cake on his birthday and attending a staff leaving do in contravention of the ludicrous Covid rules none of us should ever have been subjected to.

But the media hysteria over what became known as the Partygate scandal dragged on for months, ignoring Slippery Starmer’s own Beergate indiscretions, of course.

The MSM, Westminster establishment and snivel service conspired to drive the non-story incessantly to the top of news agenda week after week, month after month until the Conservative party made the politically suicidal decision to dispense with their greatest electoral asset since Margaret Thatcher in order to move the conversation on.

The Tories effectively gave in to a witch hunt against the democratically elected leader of the country, who won in a landslide.

DAN WOOTTON: Even removing Boris from Downing Street was never going to be enough for the remoaners who believe they run our country, to hell with democracy

After an anti-democratic coup against Boris’ successor Liz Truss, the blob got their technocratic Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who would manage the Tories to near certain defeat at the next election.

But even removing Boris from Downing Street was never going to be enough for the remoaners who believe they run our country, to hell with democracy.

The kangaroo court of the Privileges Committee – chaired by avowed Boris hater in chief Harriet Harman – would be the final indignity endured by the man who alone stopped the biggest democratic mandate in British history, our departure from the European Union, being overturned by the political elites.

And when Boris finally quit on Friday, admitting he had lost the battle but not the war, the MSM largely responsible for his downfall celebrated with unbridled glee.

When announcing the departure on Sly News, the political reporter Liz Bates smiled: ‘We haven’t even got to the best bit – he is standing down as an MP.’

Alastair Campbell – the Labour man who lied to take the UK into an illegal war – was wheeled out with his usual hubris to slam with a straight face the dishonesty of Boris.

Harman had made clear she thought Boris was guilty long before she began her investigation by retweeting a post by Campbell that read: ‘They broke their own emergency laws. They lied. Repeatedly. They trashed the ministerial code.’

She added her own note: ‘And not just any old laws but those which were essential to protect even more people getting infected. These were laws to save lives that they broke!’

Not to mention that the initial Partygate stitch up investigation was led by Sue Gray, who inexplicably is about to become Starmer’s chief of staff.

DAN WOOTTON: After an anti-democratic coup against Boris’ successor Liz Truss, the blob got their technocratic Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who would manage the Tories to near certain defeat at the next election

As our ex-PM rightly pointed out in his own excoriating statement on Friday night, the revenge of the remoaners was underway and

being well and truly celebrated.

By contrast, Sturgeon’s arrest was greeted with the sort of horror that comes when the heroine of your story is surprisingly undermined.

Even following her sensational and unprecedented arrest yesterday – a truly seismic story – the broadcast media had no real desire to suggest that they may have been investigating the wrong politician for the past two years.

Now, I appreciate that Sturgeon has been found guilty of no crime and has forcefully denied any wrongdoing while the draconian contempt of court laws operating in Scotland make any commentary around her arrest difficult, but the contrast between the coverage given to the two protagonists could not have been clearer.

The BBC News website ran a lead story – complete with a stateswoman like Sturgeon smiling dressed in a pink power suit – with the headline: Police release Nicola Sturgeon without charge.

Underneath, a picture of a dishevelled BoJo was attached to the provocative headline: Country doesn’t miss Johnson drama, says Shapps.

Nothing was going to derail their narrative.

The brutal defenestration of Boris Johnson by Britain’s now all-conquering remoaner blob should concern you, even if you are not a fan of the former Prime Minister.

Boris has countless faults – I regularly criticised his lockdown policies during the Covid pandemic, for example – but the lengths the Westminster establishment is going to in order to finish his political career for good are, quite frankly, chilling.

DAN WOOTTON: As leader, Sturgeon was one of just three signatories on the SNP’s accounts – the other being her husband and the party’s treasurer (both also arrested by Scottish cops)

There is a suggestion the Privileges Committee could try and ban him from the parliamentary estate for life.

Where on earth is the sense of proportion?

At worst, Boris accidentally misled parliament about the extent of partying by Downing Street staff at Number 10 during lockdown.

That doesn’t compare to the consequences of how Tony Blair misled the country over Iraq, yet he faced no official sanctions from parliament.

Now, the Committee is threatening to punish MPs who dare to speak out about the sham process, enveloping Westminster in official silence.

These are Ministry of Truth style tactics.

Boris Johnson had a right to stay in parliament, keep Fishy Rishi on his toes, and, maybe just maybe, return to give Labour a run for its money before the next election.

The fact he wasn’t able to do so because of a spurious witch hunt should tell you that British democracy is in crisis.

Just don’t expect to watch anything about this on the BBC.

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