Andrew Neil called out Boris Johnson for failing to be interviewed – the only 5 reactions you need
BBC bulldog, Andrew Neil, has been interviewing the party leaders in the run-up to the general election, with Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn having received particular savagings.
However, in spite of their apparent best efforts, the BBC has failed to pin the Prime Minister down to a commitment to face the same ordeal, a pattern repeated across the campaign landscape.
At the end of his interview with Nigel Farage, Andrew Neil turned to camera and said this.
“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
from Chris Pratt GIFs via Gfycat
Twitter had thoughts.
1.
Hello police? I’d like to report a murder but the victim didn’t show up pic.twitter.com/JlyDPouJym
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 5, 2019
2.
It’s time to stop being a chicken Boris Johnson and face Andrew Neil, you cannot hide forever, are you afraid the nonsense and lies you spout will be exposed? You are deemed “untrustworthy” time to stop hiding and face the music #CowardJohnson #GeneralElection19 https://t.co/2F68g5vF09
— Angela Rayner 🌈 (@AngelaRayner) December 5, 2019
3.
This is unprecedented from the BBC and @afneil , good that it happened but unprecedented. That’s because Johnson is an unprecedented kind of politician, who, if elected PM with a working majority, will treat all of us in a frighteningly unprecedented way. https://t.co/QRAThHA6bY
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) December 5, 2019
4.
HOLY FUCK! @afneil essentially dropping his trousers, bending over, blowing raspberries and slapping his buttocks in Boris Johnson’s direction. https://t.co/GGD8KnbNlN
— Mitten d'Amour (@MittenDAmour) December 5, 2019
5.
Not that any of this makes up for the BBC’s negligently cack-handed approach to this election so far, but it’s a small step in the right direction.
The next one is to empty chair the dribbling chode for thirty minutes if he still refuses to turn up.
— 🏳️🌈 Merry ChristMax 🏳️🌈 (@SpillerOfTea) December 5, 2019
James O’Brien wasn’t convinced that the clip was anything other than a charade.
Johnson & Neil have both been paid epic amounts of money by the Barclay brothers to promote their business interests in the Telegraph,Spectator, government etc. But here’s a meaningless pantomime designed to let you pretend otherwise. How much do they pay you @afneil? https://t.co/2QUODWvh2C
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) December 5, 2019
But Jeremy Corbyn made hay while the sun shone – or at least while there was a gap in the clouds.
Vote Labour. pic.twitter.com/Wkjg094R88
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 5, 2019
If he hasn’t sent Boris Johnson a white feather by the end of Friday, what is even the point?
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Andrew Neil’s forensic 43-second deconstruction of Nicola Sturgeon is quite the watch