It would appear that the Sun has finally lost patience with New Labour. Front page splash after front page splash pile on the misery for Gordon Brown’s beleagured government.
The most savage criticism and opprobrium meted out to Bottler Brown comes unsurprisingly from the Sun’s army of angry columnists. What is surprising is the level of abuse the columnists are allowed to get away with.
Trevor Kavanagh on May 12 unfavourably compared our PM to fallen Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who was executed for genocide and crimes against the state following a popular revolution.
Stronger, and less tastefully still, Kelvin MacKenzie claimed on May 1 that many people in the country would be happy to strangle Gordon until his one good eye popped out.
Greater abuse followed from the poisoned pen of Jon Gaunt who on May 9 claimed that Gary Glitter, a convicted paedophile, has more chance of a comeback than Bottler Brown.
These outrageous personal slurs are not only indicative of the Sun’s rapid loss of faith in Gordon Brown but highlight the complete lack of editorial control or censor under which these high profile and well paid columnists operate.
Food shortage insult
Jeremy Clarkson on May 10 dismissed the global food shortage on account of the shelves at his local Sainsbury’s store being rammed. To top this gloriously insensitive and ignorant statement off the following double page spread described the plight of starving Burmese children.
How else can such lame, ill-considered and moronic thoughts be allowed in a national newspaper unless there is a reluctance on the behalf of editing staff to ask star columnists to re-submit ideas which they have patently taken no time to consider and which fall well below journalistic standards of taste and decency.
Chief offender so far this month must go to Ally Ross who managed to squeeze out three spectacularly insensitive remarks in his column on May 9.
First he asked whether recently deceased comedian Mike Reid would have to defend his Baron title won on a recent posthumously shown ITV show on Living TV’s ghost hunting programme Most Haunted.
Secondly he suggested that self confessed bulimic John Prescott should appear on Celebrity Freaky Eaters.
And finally he produced a litany of lame tsunami puns to review ITV drama Flood. His column page preceded a double page spread on the victims of the Burma cyclone.
Editors should be demanding more from their star turns than just a flow of tasteless invective. Gordon Brown would be the first to agree.
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