Eurovision chiefs strike bum note barring President Zelensky’s speech
A bum note
BY barring President Zelensky from speaking to millions tonight, Eurovision broadcasters are horribly out of tune with the civilised world.
The event already picked a side the moment it banned Russia for waging its sickening war on the original host nation.
And objecting to Zelensky’s speech now on “political” grounds implies there are two legitimate arguments competing in that conflict. There are not.
One side invaded its peaceful, sovereign neighbour unprovoked.
It has murdered, tortured and raped men, women and children, looted their homes and set about levelling entire cities.
Every sane person has safely concluded the Kremlin is in the wrong — and that Zelensky is heroically leading Ukraine’s fight against tyranny.
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Rishi Sunak is rightly outraged at Eurovision’s producers, the European Broadcasting Union, of which the BBC is a leading member.
Why ARE they so worried about Zelensky telling 160million people the truth?
Are they confused by their own rules? Or is wokeness now playing a part?
If so, it’s not “inclusive” to be silent over irrefutable evil.
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Loco Left
NEVER doubt that the train drivers’ strike is a cynical political war on the Tories.
Aslef, after all, should have few complaints about £65,000 for a 35-hour week.
Twice the average full-time wage for fewer hours. But look how the union officially presents the dispute.
It says the value of staff’s wages is falling not because of rampant inflation triggered by Covid and Russia’s war, but through “Government incompetence”.
The Transport Secretary, it claims, “wants rail workers to pay the price”.
The modernisation the Government seeks — ending archaic union practices — “is a return to Victorian conditions”.
It is wildly over-the-top, partisan drivel typical of the militant Left. The public is growing sick of it.
Aslef boss Mick Whelan is enraged No10 won’t speak to him. But it is rightly leaving that to the rail firms, to avoid the direct confrontation the unions crave.
Labour, naturally, insist the Government must “get around the table”.
Surrender, in other words, as they would.
Pay saboteurs
THE irony of the unions’ militancy is that it is making it ever harder to fund pay rises.
Endless public sector strikes, alongside other factors, were blamed yesterday for Britain’s growth being so feeble in the first three months of the year.
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Given how much of the country is routinely brought to a standstill it is at least a relief not to be at zero, like Germany, or in the recession predicted last year by the bungling Bank of England.
A testament to the economy’s resilience, for all the hard-Left’s efforts to derail it.